Pa Licenses; About Licenses - HPE XP7 User Manual

PA Licenses

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• Generate licenses at the HPEAC license
key website on page 60
• Add licenses on page 62
• View status for individual licenses on page
63
• Remove licenses on page 67

About licenses

Every XP or XP7 disk array that is connected to an instance of PA must have a valid PA license to
monitor the internal raw disk capacity of the XP disk array or the physical usable capacity of the P9500
and XP7 disk array. PA monitors the internal raw disk capacity in an XP disk array or the physical usable
capacity in a P9500 disk array for which a license is generated at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Authorization Center (HPEAC) website (URL: http://myenterpriselicense.hpe.com/). Permanent license
is applicable to monitor both physical usable and raw capacities. To monitor physical usable capacities,
you can generate Permanent and Meter based Term licenses.
The internal raw disk capacity refers to the total capacity of all the RAID Groups created on the XP disk
array. It excludes the disk capacity occupied by the external RAID Groups and pool volumes, such as the
thin provisioning pools and the virtual volumes.
The Physical Usable Capacity is calculated as sum of the Total Capacity of the RAID Groups excluding
External RAID Groups.
Table 3: License management during installation or upgrade
Installation or upgrade
When you install PA v7.1 for the first
time
When you upgrade PA from v6.4.2 or
later to v7.1, and PA was in the
Instant-on period
42 PA Licenses
Learn more
• About licenses on page 42
• About Instant-on license on HPE XP7 PA
installation on page 43
• Instant-on license expiration on page 44
• Grace period expiration on page 45
• About HPE XP7 PA licenses on page 46
• Aggregate license status on page 54
License management
You are provided an Instant-on license, which is automatically
enabled after installation. The Instant-on license (trial license) is
provided with every instance of PA. It is valid for a period of 120
days from the day you install PA, after which a grace period of 60
days is provided.
During the 120 days tenure or the 60 days grace period, you
must generate a Permanent license at the HPEAC license key
website for each monitored XP or XP7 disk array, and install the
license key on PA.
PA continues to be in that state after the upgrade, until the
Instant-on period expires or you generate a Permanent license
for the monitored XP/XP7 disk arrays.
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