Scenarios For Managing Licensing; Adding Storage To Your Machine - IBM DS8900F Introduction And Planning Manual

• If you received your license keys from a technical service representative, enter them in the
Activate Licensed Functions window.
• If you need to obtain your license keys from the IBM Data storage feature activation (DSFA)
website, complete the following steps.
a. Go to IBM Data storage feature activation (DSFA) website (www.ibm.com/storage/dsfa).
b. Click DS8000 series.
c. Enter the machine type, serial number, and machine signature of your DS8000 system. You can
find this information either by clicking Need Help in the Activate Licensed Functions window or
by selecting the Properties action on the System page.
d. Download the license keys XML file.
e. In the Activate Licensed Functions window, click the Browse icon to select the license keys
XML file that you downloaded and click Open.
3. Click Activate.

Scenarios for managing licensing

These topics provide scenarios for managing your licenses after you initially activate them.
The following scenarios are provided:
• Adding storage capacity to an existing storage system
• Managing an active license feature
Note: More scenarios can be found on the IBM DS8000 Information Center.

Adding storage to your machine

You can add storage (in terabytes) to an existing licensed function, such as Copy Services.
About this task
For example, assume that you initially purchased 250 TB of Copy Services capacity. After several months,
you need an extra 100 TB for your point-in-time copy operations. To increase storage, you must purchase
and activate a larger license. This activity is nondisruptive and does not require that you restart your
storage system.
Procedure
1. For example, you order four of the Copy Services feature code 8253 (25 TB each for a total of 100 TB)
against the serial number of the 533x or 904x machine type license currently on your storage system.
This additional license capacity increases your Copy Services authorization level.
2. After you order the features, you receive confirmation from IBM that these new features were
processed.
3. Connect to the IBM-supported Disk Storage Feature Activation (DSFA) website at IBM Data storage
feature activation (DSFA) website (www.ibm.com/storage/dsfa) to retrieve the feature activation code
for the licensed feature.
This new feature activation code represents the total capacity that is now licensed (or 350 TB). It
licenses the original 250 TB plus the additional 100 TB that you just ordered.
4. Obtain the feature activation code for the licensed feature from your sales representative.
5. After you obtain the feature activation code for the licensed feature, enter it into the DS8000 Storage
Management GUI.
You replace the existing feature activation code with the new feature activation code.
6. After the feature activation code is installed successfully, you now have 350 TB of Copy Services
capacity.
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