Best Practices; Licensing - Quantum DXi8500 User Manual

Best Practices

Licensing

Quantum DXi8500 User's Guide
The DXi8500 system must be relocated by a qualified Quantum field
service engineer.
There are several items that should be considered when installing and
configuring your DXi8500 system. By reviewing this information, you
can help shorten the installation and configuration time for your
system.
• Licensing
• Virtual Media – How Many and What Size?
The features of the DXi8500 are enabled through licensing options,
which are available through the remote management pages (see
Keys on page 438).
Licenses are either factory-installed on the DXi8500, or they are
available through a license certificate.
Factory-Installed Licenses
The following DXi8500 licenses are factory-installed:
• VTL
• Backup Application Specific (Path to Tape)
• Data Deduplication
• Replication
• Storage Capacity
VTL
Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
The
the media changer and tape drive to be exposed to the attached Fibre
Channel hosts. This option must be enabled before your virtual devices
are recognized by the backup hosts and applications.
Chapter 2: Basic Operations
license allows the virtual devices such as
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