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Chapter 4
Activating vFabric SQLFire Licensing
vFabric SQLFire includes a default evaluation license that enables you to run the product tutorial and perform simple
evaluation activities. You can obtain custom evaluation licensing and purchase production licensing from your VMware
account manager or the VMware license portal.
Understand vFabric SQLFire License Options
vFabric SQLFire has a number of licensing options. Read the following sections to understand the different
license types.
Default Evaluation License
The default evaluation license included with SQLFire allows you to run up to three non-production data stores
in the distributed system. SQLFire uses the default evaluation license upon startup if custom evaluation or
production licensing has not been installed. This license never expires. It is not allowed for production use.
Custom Evaluation and Production Licenses
To get expanded conguration options and to move into production with SQLFire, contact your VMware account
manager. You can obtain custom evaluation licenses for your specic evaluation requirements. You can purchase
a production license when you are nished with your evaluation. Your VMware account manager will help you
determine the best topology and expiration options for your needs. For information on purchasing SQLFire
licensing, see http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vfabric-sqlre/buy.html.
Custom evaluation licenses have an expiration date. Production licenses never expire.
vFabric SQLFire Professional and Enterprise Licenses
SQLFire uses these main license types for custom evaluation and production licensing:
vFabric SQLFire Professional license. The vFabric SQLFire Professional license enables you to deploy a
SQLFire distributed system in a production environment. A license is required for each SQLFire distributed
system member that hosts data, whether or not they also act as a server in client/server deployments.
vFabric SQLFire Enterprise license. The standalone vFabric SQLFire Enterprise license enables you to
deploy a SQLFire distributed system in a production environment. This license also enables you to loosely
couple SQLFire distributed systems that are at different geographical locations (WAN replication). A license
is required for each SQLFire distributed system member that hosts data, whether or not they also act as a server
in client/server deployments.
Because the vFabric SQLFire Enterprise license is available only as a standalone license, you must install the
license in the sqlfire.properties le or as a boot property. You cannot install a vFabric SQLFire
Enterprise license in the vFabric License Server.
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