Instant-On License Activation; Instant-On License Expiration - HPE XP7 User Manual

NOTE: The term, monitored XP or XP7 disk arrays, refers to those XP or XP7 disk arrays for
which at least one round of configuration data collection is complete.
The term, unmonitored XP or XP7 disk arrays refers to those XP or XP7 disk arrays for which
configuration data collection is not yet performed.
• It is applicable across all the XP and the XP7 disk arrays that are monitored by the current instance of
PA. It is not bound to a specific XP or XP7 disk array. During the Instant-on license period, PA can
monitor unlimited internal raw disk capacities of multiple XP disk arrays and physical usable capacities
of multiple XP7 disk arrays. You can perform all tasks on the XP and the XP7 disk arrays that PA
supports, such as configuration and performance data collection, generating reports and charts to view
the associated array components performance.
• It facilitates PA to collect data for all the monitored XP and XP7 disk arrays. It also allows you to
perform new configuration data collection, so that PA can monitor additional internal raw disk
capacities of the XP disk arrays and physical usable capacities of the P9500 disk arrays.
• You can perform configuration collection for an unmonitored XP or XP7 disk array during the instant-on
period. After the configuration collection is performed, when the instant-on period expires and a valid
license is not yet installed, PA switches over to the grace period of 60 days for that XP or XP7 disk
array.

Instant-on license activation

PA indicates that the instant-on license is activated by displaying the following status message in the top
pane of the Dashboard screen and the License screen. (The Overview dashboard is the first screen when
you log in to PA):
The Performance Advisor trial license expire on August 1, 2017. Please
contact your HPE Representative to purchase the requisite Performance Advisor
licenses to avoid disruption of Performance Advisor services.
Where, month, day, and year is calculated as 120 days from the date when you install PA.
Every day, a status message on the number of remaining Instant-on days appears under Comments in
the License Status section against each XP or XP7 disk array record for which a Permanent license is
not yet installed. For more information on the series of events that follow after an Instant-on license
expires, see Instant-on license expiration on page 44 and Grace period expiration on page 45.

Instant-on license expiration

The Instant-on license expires when one of the following conditions are met:
• The Instant-on license period of 120 days is over and Permanent license is not yet installed for any of
the monitored XP or XP7 disk arrays, PA does the following:
◦ It initiates a grace period of 60 days for all the monitored XP and XP7 disk arrays. During the grace
period, you can monitor unlimited internal raw disk capacities of multiple XP disk arrays and
physical usable capacities of multiple XP7 disk arrays. You can also perform all the PA related
operations on the XP and the XP7 disk arrays. It includes collecting the configuration data for
additional internal raw disk capacities on the XP disk arrays or physical usable capacities on the
XP7 disk arrays. The configuration data collection is possible only until the date, the current grace
period is valid. After the grace period expires, you cannot perform new configuration data collection
on any of the monitored XP and XP7 disk arrays, for which Permanent licenses are not installed.
◦ The following changes are displayed on the License screen for each XP or XP7 disk array record:
44 Instant-on license activation