Managing Licenses
You must license Vertica in order to use it. Open Text Corporation supplies your license in the form of one or more license files, which encode the terms of your license. The licenses that are available include:
vlicense.dat, for columnar tables.vlicense_565_bytes.dat, for data stored in a Hadoop environment with Vertica for SQL on Apache Hadoop.
To prevent introducing special characters that invalidate the license, do not open the license files in an editor or email client. Opening the file in this way can introduce special characters, such as line endings and file terminators, that may not be visible within the editor. Whether visible or not, these characters invalidate the license.
Applying License Files
For ease of Vertica Premium Edition and SQL on Hadoop installation, OpenText recommends that you copy the license file to /tmp/vlicense.dat on the Administration host.
Be careful not to change the license key file in any way when copying the file between Windows and Linux, or to any other location. To help prevent applications from trying to alter the file, enclose the license file in an archive file (such as a .zip or .tar file).
After copying the license file from one location to another, check that the copied file size is identical to that of the one you received from Vertica.
Obtaining a License Key File
To obtain a license key (for example, for Premium Edition or SQL on Hadoop), contact Vertica at:
Your Vertica Community Edition download package includes the Community Edition license, which allows three nodes and 1TB of data. The Vertica Community Edition license does not expire.
