18 Registering Advanced Features; Evaluation Period For Using Advanced Features; Starting The Evaluation Period - HP StoreVirtual 4000 User Manual

18 Registering advanced features

Advanced features expand the capabilities of the SAN/iQ software and are enabled by licensing
the storage systems through the HP License Key Delivery Service website, using the license entitlement
certificate that is packaged with each storage system. However, you can use the advanced features
immediately by agreeing to enter an evaluation period when you begin using the SAN/iQ software
for clustered storage. Throughout the evaluation period you receive reminders to register and obtain
a license for the advanced features. Create the SAN and begin using all the available features
before obtaining the licenses, and then apply the license keys when you obtain them.
The advanced features that require licensing are listed below.
Multi-System Virtualization and Clustering—clustered storage systems that create a single pool
of storage
Managed Snapshots—recurring scheduled snapshots of volumes
Remote Copy—scheduled or manual asynchronous replication of data to remote sites
Multi-Site SAN—automatic synchronous data mirroring between sites

Evaluation period for using advanced features

When you use any feature that requires a license key, a message opens, asking you to verify that
you want to enter the evaluation period. During this evaluation period you may configure, test,
and modify any feature. At the end of the evaluation period, if you do not obtain a license key,
all volumes and snapshots related to the feature become unavailable to any clients. The data is
safe, and you can continue to manage the volumes and snapshots in the CMC. You can restore
the entire configuration to availability by obtaining the license keys and applying them to the
storage systems in the management group that contains the configured advanced features.

Starting the evaluation period

You start the evaluation period for an advanced feature when you configure that feature in the
CMC.
Table 68 Descriptions of advanced features
Advanced Feature
Multi-Node Virtualization and
Clustering
Remote Copy
Managed Snapshot
Multi-Site SAN
Tracking the time remaining in the evaluation period
Track the time left on your evaluation period by using either the management group Registration
tab or the reminder notices that open periodically.
226 Registering advanced features
Provides this functionality
Clustering multiple storage systems to
create pools of storage
Creating secondary volumes and
snapshots in remote locations
Creating schedules to snapshot
volumes
Multi-site clusters which synchronously
and automatically mirror data between
sites
And enters the license evaluation period
when
You add two or more storage systems
to a cluster in a management group.
You create a remote volume in
preparation for making a remote
snapshot.
You create a schedule to snapshot a
volume.
You create a cluster with multiple sites.