Chapter 5 Capacity On Demand - Quantum scalar i500 User Manual

Chapter 5
Capacity on Demand
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All Scalar i500 library configurations ship with the purchased number of
slots pre-activated. The number of available pre-activated slots begins at
41 for all library configurations and increases in 46-slot increments to a
maximum of 409 slots in the 41U library configuration.
After the initial purchase of your library, you can activate any remaining
inactive slots in your library by purchasing a COD license upgrade.
Upgrades are sold in 46-slot increments. For example, a 14U library could
have 87 slots licensed at the time of the initial purchase (41 default + 46
purchased = 87). The remaining 46 slots of the 14U library can be
activated at a later time by purchasing an upgrade. The full 133 slots
would then be available for use.
If you upgrade to more slots, your new license key contains the entire
license corresponding to your expanded slot count. The new license key
replaces your current license key. For more information on licensing, see
Obtaining and Installing a License Key on page 88.
It is possible to license more slots than are physically available in the
library. In that case, when expansion modules are added, the extra
licensed slots then become available for use.
To see your library's current configuration and slot availability, open the
Library Configuration Report (choose
Reports > Library Configuration
from the Web client).
Table 6 shows the number of default and available pre-activated slots
available for purchase and the number of slots you can activate with a
COD license key for each library configuration.
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