Exceeding Permanent Licensed Capacity And Grace Period - HPE XP7 User Manual

• An aggregate of internal raw disk capacities in an XP disk array
• An aggregate of physical usable capacities in an XP7 disk array.
If a Meter based Term license is installed, the TB-Days appear next to the Permanent licensed
capacity.
IMPORTANT:
The above mentioned license details are displayed only for those XP and XP7 disk arrays, for which
at least one round of configuration data collection is complete (monitored disk arrays).
For a description of the columns displayed in the above image, see the table under Add licenses on
page 62. You can also view the individual license details.

Exceeding permanent licensed capacity and grace period

When the internal raw disk capacity of an XP disk array or the physical usable capacity of an XP7 disk
array exceeds the Permanent licensed capacity, PA switches to the grace period of 60 days for that
particular disk array.
The License Status for such XP or XP7 disk arrays displays Capacity Insufficient in the View License
Status section. The following informational message appears under Comments:
Array capacity exceeds licensed Capacity which was detected on month, day, year. Grace Period expires
on month, day, year. Please purchase the required Performance Advisor licenses now to continue using
Performance Advisor on this Array.
where:
month, day, year is the date till when the grace period is valid.
To continue monitoring the internal raw disk capacity, purchase the required PA LTUs and generate a
Permanent license before the grace period expires.
Similarly, to continue monitoring the physical usable capacity, you can generate a Permanent license or
appropriate TB-Days of Meter based Term license based on your requirement. PA verifies the XP7 disk
array physical usable capacity whenever you perform or schedule configuration data collection.
Example scenario 7
Consider the following points:
1. An XP7 disk array has a physical usable capacity of 50TB.
2. A Permanent license is installed on 11/20/2010 to monitor the 50TB physical usable capacity.
3. Due to a surge in storage requests, another 25TB physical usable capacity is added on 11/30/2010 for
a duration of five days.
4. As the additional physical usable capacity is greater than the Permanent licensed capacity, PA enters
60 days grace period.
Because this is a short term unplanned surge in storage requests, you can install TB-Days of Meter
based Term license to monitor the additional physical usable capacity for the specified duration. To
monitor 25TB for five days (at the rate of 25TB a day), generate and install 125TB-Days on 11/30/2010.
As 125TB-Days are sufficient for five days, PA ends the grace period and updates the following fields in
the License screen – License Status section:
• After installation on 11/30/2010:
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