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Learn about ONTAP Select purchased licenses for production deployments

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After you determine that ONTAP Select is suitable for your organization, you can purchase the licenses needed to support a production deployment. You must choose either the Capacity Pools or Capacity Tiers licensing model as well as the storage capacity for each deployment.

Common licensing characteristics

The Capacity Pools and Capacity Tiers licensing models are very different in several respects. However, the two licensing models share several common characteristics, including:

  • You must purchase one or more licenses as needed when deploying ONTAP Select in a production environment.

  • The storage capacity for a license is allocated in 1 TB increments.

  • All platform licensing offerings are supported (standard, premium, and premium XL).

  • You should contact your NetApp account team or partner for assistance as needed when acquiring the necessary licenses.

  • You must upload the license files to the Deploy administration utility, which then applies the licenses based on the licensing model.

  • After installing and applying a license, you can add additional capacity by contacting your NetApp account team or partner to procure an updated license.

  • An ONTAP Select node that is initially deployed with a purchased license cannot be converted to an evaluation license.

Capacity Tiers licensing model

There are several characteristics unique to the Capacity Tiers licensing model, including:

  • You must purchase a license for each ONTAP Select node.

  • The minimum amount you can purchase is 1 TB.

  • Each Capacity Tier license has a storage capacity and is locked to a specific node.

  • The storage capacity identifies the raw capacity and corresponds to the total allowable size of the data disks available to the ONTAP Select virtual machine.

  • NetApp generates a nine-digit license serial number for each ONTAP Select node.

  • The storage allocated to a node is perpetual (no renewal required), but you must renew the support contract associated with the license.

  • Each ONTAP Select node in an high-availability (HA) pair requires a license that is at least as large as the raw storage attached to the node.

  • The node serial number is nine digits and equal to the license serial number.

  • You can apply the license file during cluster deployment or within 30 days after creating a cluster.

Capacity Pools licensing model

There are several characteristics unique to the Capacity Pools licensing model, including:

  • You must purchase a license for each shared Capacity Pool.

  • The minimum amount you can purchase is 2 TB.

  • Each Capacity Pool license has a storage capacity and is locked to a specific License Manager instance within a Deploy administration utility.

  • The storage capacity identifies the raw capacity and corresponds to the total allowable size of the data aggregates that you can create in the ONTAP Select virtual machine.

  • A nine-digit license serial number is generated by NetApp for each Capacity Pool.

  • The storage allocated to a Capacity Pool is valid only for a specific time based on the purchase (renewal required).

  • The License Manager generates a twenty-digit node serial number based on the Capacity Pool license serial number.

  • All ONTAP Select nodes in a cluster share the same license capacity. This means the license must be large enough to provide for the storage allocated to all nodes in the cluster.

  • Each node automatically leases storage capacity for its local data aggregates from a shared Capacity Pool.

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