Obtaining licenses to enable Aspera Fast Adaptive Secure Protocol (FASP) technology

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Evaluation licenses

To test Aspera FASP technology in your system environment, install 30-day evaluation licenses:

1. Request the licenses by sending an email to aspera-licenses@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com:
   - Include your site ID, company name, address, phone number, and the email address of the primary contact at your company.
   - State that you require a 30-day evaluation license for the IBM Aspera Enterprise Unlimited Bandwidth product.
   - Indicate the number of licenses that you require.
   
   One license is required for each server that is used for data transfer with Aspera FASP technology. For example, if you are replicating a node from a source server to a target server, you require two licenses.
   
   If the license request is approved, the primary contact can expect to receive an email within 24 hours. The email will have license file attachments that are named according to the following convention:
   
   xxxxx -TransferServer-unlim.eval.aspera-license
   
   where xxxxx is a unique number.
2. Copy one of the license files to the server bin directory of the source server. Select either license file. By default, the directory is in the following location:
   /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin
3. Copy the remaining license file to the server bin directory of the target server.
4. On the source and target servers, set the permission level of each license file to 755. For example, if you are using the default installation directory and the unique license number is 47474, issue the following command:

chmod 755 /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/
47474-TransferServer-unlim.eval.aspera-license

Full licenses

To obtain and install full, unlimited licenses, which do not expire, complete the following steps:

1. Purchase the IBM Spectrum Protect High Speed Data Transfer product. The product identification number is 5725-Z10. You can obtain the product from IBM Passport Advantage.
   One instance of IBM Spectrum Protect High Speed Data Transfer is required for each server that is used to transfer data with Aspera FASP technology. For example, if you are replicating a node from a source server to a target server, you require two instances of IBM Spectrum Protect High Speed Data Transfer.
    
2. Install IBM Spectrum Protect High Speed Data Transfer on each server by using the installation wizard.

Restrictions

The following restrictions apply:

• Aspera FASP technology can be enabled only on IBM Spectrum Protect Version 7.1.6 or later servers that are running on a Linux x86_64 operating system.
• Aspera FASP technology can help you optimize data transfer in a wide area network (WAN). However, if WAN performance meets your business needs, do not enable Aspera FASP technology.
• If the required licenses are missing or expired, operations to replicate nodes or protect storage pools fail.