HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.3 User and Troubleshooting Guide (T1789-96322, August 2011)

• “Viewing aggregate License status” on page 39
• “Viewing status for individual licenses” on page 39
• “Removing licenses” on page 47
Related Topics
• P9000 Performance Advisor licenses
• “Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website” on page 36
• “Instant-on license on P9000 Performance Advisor installation” on page 24
• “Instant-on license expiration” on page 25
• “Grace period expiration” on page 27
Instant-on license on P9000 Performance Advisor installation
The Instant-on license or the trial license is provided with every instance of P9000 Performance Advisor.
By default, this license is automatically enabled when you install P9000 Performance Advisor. The
following are important notes on the Instant-on license:
• It is either valid for a period of 120 days from the day you install P9000 Performance Advisor or
until the time you generate, and install a new license for one or more monitored XP or P9000 disk
arrays. It cannot be generated from the HPAC license key website. For more information on adding
licenses, see “Installing licenses” on page 37.
Consider the following example, where P9000 Performance Advisor is installed on 20th Aug’09
and monitoring five arrays (combination of XP and P9000 disk arrays). The Instant-on license is
enabled on the same date and valid until the 19th Dec’09. If you add two more XP disk arrays
on 31st Aug’09 for which configuration data is collected, the XP disk arrays are still monitored
in the current Instant-on license mode only. The Instant-on duration of 120 days is not calculated
separately for the additional two XP disk arrays.
NOTE:
The term, monitored XP or P9000 disk arrays, refers to those XP or P9000 disk arrays for which
at least one round of configuration data collection is complete.
The term, unmonitored XP or P9000 disk arrays refers to those XP or P9000 disk arrays for which
configuration data collection is not yet performed.
• It is applicable across all the XP and the P9000 disk arrays that are monitored by the current in-
stance of P9000 Performance Advisor. It is not bound to a specific XP or P9000 disk array. During
the Instant-on license period, P9000 Performance Advisor can monitor unlimited internal raw disk
capacities of multiple XP disk arrays and usable capacities of multiple P9000 disk arrays. You
can perform all tasks on the XP and the P9000 disk arrays that P9000 Performance Advisor sup-
ports, such as configuration and performance data collection, generating reports and charts to
view the associated components performance.
• It facilitates P9000 Performance Advisor to collect data for all the monitored XP and P9000 disk
arrays. It also allows you to perform new configuration data collection, so that P9000 Performance
Advisor can monitor additional internal raw disk capacities of the XP disk arrays and usable ca-
pacities of the P9000 disk arrays.
• You can perform configuration collection for an unmonitored XP or P9000 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, P9000 Performance Advisor switches over to the grace
period of 60 days for that XP or P9000 disk array.
Managing licenses for XP and P9000 disk arrays24