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layout: "docs"
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page_title: "Consul Enterprise"
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sidebar_current: "docs-enterprise"
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Consul Enterprise features a number of capabilities beyond the open source offering that may be beneficial in certain workflows.
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# Consul Enterprise
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Consul Enterprise simplifies operations by automating workflows. It adds support
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for microservices deployments across complex network topologies. It also
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increases both scalability and resilience. Features include:
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- [Automated Backups](/docs/enterprise/backups/index.html)
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- [Automated Upgrades](/docs/enterprise/upgrades/index.html)
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- [Enhanced Read Scalability](/docs/enterprise/read-scale/index.html)
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- [Redundancy Zones](/docs/enterprise/redundancy/index.html)
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- [Advanced Federation for Complex Network
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Topologies](/docs/enterprise/federation/index.html)
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- [Network Segments](/docs/enterprise/network-segments/index.html)
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- [Sentinel](/docs/enterprise/sentinel/index.html)
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These features are part of [Consul
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Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/consul.html).
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## Licensing
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Licensing capabilities were added to Consul Enterprise v1.1.0. The license is set
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once for a datacenter and will automatically propagate to all nodes within the
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datacenter over a period of time scaled between 1 and 20 minutes depending on the
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number of nodes in the datacenter. The license can be set via the
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[API](/api/operator/license.html) or the [CLI](/docs/commands/license.html). When
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Consul is first started, a 30 minute temporary license is available to allow for
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time to license the datacenter. The license should be set within ten minutes of
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starting the first Consul process to allow time for the license to propagate.
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