Licensing

Overview

This document will walk you through how to request an Ondat license for your cluster, and what types of licenses can be requested.

You will need a license for Ondat if you want to make use of the full functionalities of our product. The cluster will run unlicensed for 24 hours, but after this time period, any new operations will be blocked. You can unlock the normal functioning of the cluster by applying a valid license to the cluster.

Types of Licenses

Community Edition

You can use Ondat with many features, including RWX volume support, for free without any time limit with a 1 TB usable capacity and up to 3 nodes.

Enterprise Premium

You can obtain a tailor-made licence suitable for your needs with commercial support and a higher storage limit. For more information, contact hello@ondat.io or message us via Intercom.

You can also book a demo with our customer success team here.

Obtaining a License

Procedure

Step 1 - Register on the Ondat SaaS Platform

You need to register yourself on the Ondat SaaS Platform in order to retrieve your license.

Step 2 - Generate a License

Note: For airgapped use case: If you don’t have a cluster connected to the portal you can generate a licence just by using the clusterId. To obtain your clusterId, follow the steps here

1. Go to the “Organization” tab on the menu bar
2. Click on “Generate a New License”
3. Choose the cluster you want to add a license to. You can add your airgapped clusterId on this step.
4. Choose the type of license you want the cluster to use
5. Click generate

For Ondat 2.8.0 or above: Your cluster would be licensed automatically with your chosen licence type. No further action needed.

Step 3 - For Ondat 2.7.0 or below: Add license to the cluster

1. Copy the command displayed on your screen and run the CLI command on your machine
2. Congratulations, you have successfully applied the license to your cluster!

Further Reading: Manage Your License in CLI

Running the Ondat CLI

Step 1 - Launch target Kubernetes Cluster

1. In order to get the CLI running, you must launch it on the target Kubernetes cluster.

⚠️ Be sure to edit the environment variables appropriately for your target cluster, eg. the username/password for the administrative user.

kubectl -n storageos create -f-<<END
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: storageos-cli
  namespace: storageos
  labels:
    app: storageos
    run: cli
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: storageos-cli
      run: cli
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: storageos-cli
        run: cli
    spec:
      containers:
      - command:
        - /bin/sh
        - -c
        - "while true; do sleep 3600; done"
        env:
        - name: STORAGEOS_ENDPOINTS
          value: http://storageos:5705
        - name: STORAGEOS_USERNAME
          value: storageos
        - name: STORAGEOS_PASSWORD
          value: storageos
        image: storageos/cli:v2.5.0
        name: cli
END

Step 2 - Retrieve Unique Identifier

Once the pod is launched, run the following script:

POD=$(kubectl -n storageos get pod -ocustom-columns=_:.metadata.name --no-headers -lapp=storageos-cli)

Now that the POD variable is set, the pod is accessible via that variable for the rest of the lifetime of that terminal.

Note: If you open a new terminal, you’ll need to run this command again to rediscover the ID of the pod.

Retrieving a cluster ID via the Ondat CLI

Prerequisites

⚠️ You need to have Ondat CLI running - see instructions

💡 For more information refer to the licence CLI command reference documentation.

Procedure

1. Run the following command

   kubectl -n storageos exec $POD -- storageos get cluster
   

2. You will see the following message:

   ID:           704dd165-9580-4da4-a554-0acb96d328cb
   Created at:   2022-01-10T13:58:00Z (2 weeks ago)
   Updated at:   2022-01-10T14:05:27Z (2 weeks ago)
   Nodes:        3
     Healthy:    3
     Unhealthy:  0
   

The UUID in the ID field is unique to your cluster and is the only information you need in order to obtain your first license.

View your license details on the CLI

A license contains a list of capabilities and capacities, the cluster ID, an expiry time, any extra features and a license type alongside a digital signature.

Prerequisites

⚠️ You need to have Ondat CLI running - see instructions 💡 For more information refer to the licence CLI command reference documentation.

Procedure

1. Run the following command to view the license details

   cat license.dat
   

2. The following message will appear

   clusterCapacityGiB: 5120 
   clusterID: 164237eb-f88a-4bb8-a7cf-a23d468e07c0 
   customerName: storageos
   expiresAt: "2021-11-15T14:00:00Z" 
   features:
   - nfs
   kind: project
   ------------- LICENCE SIGNATURE -------------
   KyjNleTcdmieZVLmZ/rg0SzdAM7I/CH0j22FIFJJSJaeB71OvQrTMtHGyL5TSFNMrEGbyh1HQlDgZb5A
   V1HyjBlS3LjoB/MoagulTxIlZh/R8eRXCOQ46qNZ8Yb7+dHLdCVXBnRqZT11hLqZsMqIeO1y9f5dw65H
   kvl6vWW7YIS9r655S25jMMU7brrGDQVdjvU7tSA74BrnzDFHu7/poopIuFqcxZc/NLrKp/akkvyZI5Ex
   1wH7D4onjVG2pgi30Kia+mjbI1B9pxQyRppQQ4hNXy4qBUUNMFh0menh0wHdQoM1VLU4Il22PrkeICV0
   NaalLsK/96bJov6tpbg96g==
   

Ondat CLI - Applying a licence via the CLI

This information is only applicable if you have received a license file from our Customer Success team. Otherwise, you should receive and install your license via the Ondat SaaS Platform.

Prerequisites

⚠️ You need to have Ondat CLI running - see instructions

⚠️ Make sure POD variable is set as per the CLI instructions

⚠️ You need to have received a license from our Customer Success team. Contct hello@ondat.io for more details.

💡 For more information refer to the licence CLI command reference documentation.

Procedure

Step 1 - Apply license key

Run the following command to apply the licence key stored in /path/to/storageos-licence.dat

cat /path/to/storageos-license.dat | kubectl -n storageos exec -it $POD -- storageos apply license --from-stdin

Step 2 - Check for extra features

Run the following command to check for extra featurs provided by your latest license:

kubectl -n storageos exec $POD -- storageos get license

You will see the message below:

ClusterID:      033a4774-c18f-4d05-ba86-90b818957f34
Expiration:     2024-01-01T23:59:59Z (2 years from now)
Capacity:       15 TiB (16520591704064)
Used:           0 B (0)
Kind:           standard
Features:       [nfs]
Customer name:  Sally Forth

💡 Don’t worry if you don’t see all of these fields - some of them are only visible when they are relevant to your individual license.