Storage license

A storage license permits you to use a designated amount of your HCP system disk storage capacity. Storage licenses are available for all system configurations: RAIN, SAIN, and VM.

All HCP systems are required to have a storage license. Newly installed systems come with a storage license that has two terabytes of active storage and two terabytes of extended storage. HCP systems upgrading to a version 7.1 of HCP or newer receive an unlimited storage license for both active and extended storage that lasts for one year.

If an active, extended, or active and extend storage license is exceeded or expires, a warning appears on the System Management Console Overview page under System Status. Monitoring mechanisms such as: syslog, system log messages, and SNMP send reminders every twenty four hours asking the system administrator to upload a new storage license.

In HCP RAIN systems with a data protection level (DPL) of two, copies of objects do not take up storage license space. For example, if you have two terrabytes of DPL 2 objects, you have only used one terrabyte of your storage license.

If the HCP system serial number changes, a new license with an updated serial number must be uploaded.

Storage licenses are available for active, economy, and extended storage. To view details about your current license or upload a new license, go to the StorageLicenses page of the System Management Console. From there, you can monitor your current license and the license history. The page contains the following information about your current license:

Type — The type of storage that the license covers. The possible types are:

oActive — This license type covers used storage capacity. For more information about used storage capacity, see Capacity and usage.

oEconomy — This license type covers objects tiered to HCP S Series Nodes. Although the license can be monitored through the HCP system, license management is done through the HCP S Series Management Console. For more information about the economy license, see HCP S Series Help.

oExtended — This license type covers tiering to additional storage managed by devices outside of the HCP system. This license is not required if tiering through NFS.

HCP system serial number — Is the serial number for the HCP system.

Quote number — Is the storage license number.

Capacity — Is the amount of storage capacity that the license provides.

Expiration date — Is the date that the license expires. There may not be an expiration date.

Status — Describes the current state of the storage license. The possible values are:

oOK — The storage license has not been exceeded or expired.

oStorage license has expired The storage license is out of date. Even if the storage license capacity hasn’t been exceeded, a new license needs to be uploaded if the current one expires.

oStorage license is not a valid license for this system — The storage license serial number does not match the HCP system serial number. This only occurs if the HCP system serial number changes during an upgrade, but, if it happens, a new license with an updated system serial number must be uploaded.

oUsage has exceeded license capacity for (active | extended | active and extended) storage — The storage capacity of the active, extended, or active and extended component of the license has been exceeded. Regardless of which license component has been exceeded, a new license with a larger amount of storage capacity must be uploaded to replace the current one.

The License History panel keeps a record of all licenses uploaded to the system. If a license is uploaded, expires, is in danger of being exceeded, or is exceeded, the event is visible in the License History panel. Click on any event in the panel to see more information about it.

Roles: You need the administrator or monitor role to access the StorageLicenses page.

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