HP StorageWorks P9000 Application Performance Extender Software User Guide (5697-0984, September 2012)

• It is either valid for a period of 120 days from the day you install P9000 Application Performance
Extender or until the time you generate, and install a new license for one or more P9500 disk arrays.
It cannot be generated from the HPAC license key website.
Consider the following example, where P9000 Application Performance Extender is installed on
20th Aug’10 and is controlling a P9500 disk array. The Instant-on license is enabled on the same
date and valid until the 19th Dec’10. If you add one more P9500 disk array on 31st Aug’10, it
is still controlled in the current Instant-on license mode only. The Instant-on duration of 120 days
is not calculated separately for the additional P9500 disk array.
• It is applicable across all the P9500 disk arrays that are controlled by the current instance of
P9000 Application Performance Extender. It is not bound to a specific P9500 disk array. During
the Instant-on license period, P9000 Application Performance Extender can monitor usable capa-
cities of multiple P9500 disk arrays. You can perform all tasks that P9000 Application Performance
Extender supports.
• When the instant-on period expires and a valid license is not yet installed, P9000 Application
Performance Extender switches over to the grace period of 60 days for that P9500 disk array.
Instant-on license activation
P9000 Application Performance Extender indicates that the instant-on license is activated by displaying
the following status message on the License screen:
The P9000 Application Performance Extender trial license expire on month,
day, year. Please contact your HP Representative to purchase the requisite
P9000 Application Performance Extender licenses to avoid disruption of
the P9000 Application Performance Extender services.
Where, month, day, and year is calculated as 120 days from the date when you install P9000
Application Performance Extender.
Every day, a status message on the number of remaining Instant-on days is displayed under Comments
in the List of existing licenses section against each P9500 disk array record for which a permanent
license is not yet installed.
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 controlled P9500 disk arrays, P9000 Application Performance Extender does the fol-
lowing:
• It initiates a grace period of 60 days for all the P9500 disk arrays. During the grace period,
you can monitor the usable capacities of multiple P9500 disk arrays. You can also perform
all the P9000 Application Performance Extender related operations on P9500 disk arrays.
After the grace period expires, P9000 Application Performance Extender will stop controlling
the P9500 disk arrays, for which permanent licenses are not installed.
• The following changes are displayed on the License screen for each P9500 disk array record:
DescriptionItem
Displays the type of the P9500 disk array.H/W Platform
Displays the serial number of the P9500 disk array.Serial Number
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