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     6    Consul Enterprise features a number of capabilities beyond the open source offering that may be beneficial in certain workflows.
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     9  # Consul Enterprise
    10  
    11  Consul Enterprise simplifies operations by automating workflows. It adds support
    12  for microservices deployments across complex network topologies. It also
    13  increases both scalability and resilience. Features include:
    14  
    15  - [Automated Backups](/docs/enterprise/backups/index.html)
    16  - [Automated Upgrades](/docs/enterprise/upgrades/index.html)
    17  - [Enhanced Read Scalability](/docs/enterprise/read-scale/index.html)
    18  - [Redundancy Zones](/docs/enterprise/redundancy/index.html)
    19  - [Advanced Federation for Complex Network
    20    Topologies](/docs/enterprise/federation/index.html)
    21  - [Network Segments](/docs/enterprise/network-segments/index.html)
    22  - [Sentinel](/docs/enterprise/sentinel/index.html)
    23  
    24  These features are part of [Consul
    25  Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/consul.html).
    26  
    27  ## Licensing
    28  
    29  Licensing capabilities were added to Consul Enterprise v1.1.0. The license is set
    30  once for a datacenter and will automatically propagate to all nodes within the
    31  datacenter over a period of time scaled between 1 and 20 minutes depending on the
    32  number of nodes in the datacenter. The license can be set via the 
    33  [API](/api/operator/license.html) or the [CLI](/docs/commands/license.html). When
    34  Consul is first started, a 30 minute temporary license is available to allow for
    35  time to license the datacenter. The license should be set within ten minutes of
    36  starting the first Consul process to allow time for the license to propagate.