HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.5 Install Guide (T1789-96339, February 2013)

the TB-Days that you want to use when entering the registration number. For example, if you have
a Meter based Term LTU for 100TB-Days and you want to use only 25TB-Days, enter 25 as the
TB-Days. You are provided a license key that can be used for 25TB-Days. You can use the remaining
75TB-Days later for the same or a different P9000 disk array. The TB-Days of Meter based Term
license that you generate are bound to the P9000 disk array serial number when the license key
is generated.
For more information on viewing and managing licenses, see the HP XP P9000 Performance
Advisor Software User Guide. For document download location, see “Related information”
(page 118).
License management in installation and upgrade scenarios
“License management during installation or upgrade” (page 70) provides the different license
management scenarios.
Table 11 License management during installation or upgrade
License managementInstallation or upgrade
You are provided an Instant-on license, which is
automatically enabled after installation. The Instant-on
When you install HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor v5.5
for the first time
license (trial license) is provided with every instance of HP
XP P9000 Performance Advisor. It is valid for a period of
120 days from the day you install HP XP P9000
Performance Advisor, after which a grace period of 60
days is provided.
During the 120 days tenure or the 60 days grace period,
you must generate a Permanent license at the HPAC license
key website for each monitored XP or P9000 disk array,
and install the license key on HP XP P9000 Performance
Advisor.
HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor continues to be in that
state after the upgrade, until the Instant-on period expires
When you upgrade HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor
from v5.3 or later versions to v5.5, and HP XP P9000
Performance Advisor was in the Instant-on period or you generate a Permanent license for the monitored XP
or the P9000 disk arrays.
HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor continues to be in that
state after the upgrade, until the grace period expires or
When you upgrade HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor
from v5.3 or later versions to v5.5, and HP XP P9000
Performance Advisor was in the grace period you generate a Permanent license for the monitored XP or
the P9000 disk arrays.
HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor continues to be in that
state until you generate a Permanent license for the
monitored XP or the P9000 disk arrays.
When you upgrade HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor
from v5.3 or later versions to v5.5, and the following are
detected:
• License violation for one or more monitored XP or
P9000 disk arrays
• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor is already in the
license expiry violation duration
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