Criteria for Determining Licensing Limits
The following sections provide the criteria that the Portal uses to determine license limits.
Capacity Manager
When licensing APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager, the license is based on the raw amount of SAN storage in your environment. StorageConsole only includes arrays that have been polled within the last 30 days.
Storage Array Capacity License Criteria
Licensing is based on the raw capacity of storage arrays, for arrays that have been polled within the last 30 days. This capacity is the total capacity of all the physical disks in the storage array. If arrays are provisioning storage to other arrays and we are capturing data from the source arrays, to avoid double-counting of capacity, only the capacity of the source arrays (not the recipient arrays) is counted toward licensing.
Vendor-Specific Capacity License Criteria
The following vendor-specific descriptions list how raw capacity is calculated for certain specific vendors.
EMC Symmetrix Arrays
Sum of the capacity of all physical disks from all array groups—no spares. Note: When viewing raw capacity in EMC Control Center, disk group 0 (hot spares) is not included in the total capacity calculation—accounting for the difference between the EMC and Capacity Manager reported capacity values.
EMC CLARiiON Arrays
Sum of the capacity of all physical disks from all array groups—including spares (drives that are not allocated to an array group).
HDS Arrays
Sum of capacity of all PDEVs from all array groups. Capacity Manager assumes that all PDEVs are part of an array group, so PDEVs that are marked as--Not included in an array group--are included in the capacity calculation. That is, no disks are treated as spares.
NetApp Arrays
Sum of the capacity of all physical disks in the filer/array. For NetApp vFilers and V-Series, this represents only internal raw capacity and does not include vFiler capacity or gateway external capacity.
Backup Manager
A Backup Manager Unit License is required for each physical or virtual host that contains supported third-party backup software agent/server software. This includes, but is not limited to, master servers, media servers, and clients. A Backup Manager Unit License is required for each of the logical instances, not just one license for the physical machine. In this discussion, client is synonymous with backup unit.
Commvault Simpana
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
• the client has one or more iDataAgents configured.
• the client was backed up (or had a backup attempt) within the last 48 hours. This includes decommissioned clients.
• the client is a media server or a master server
• the client is a VM guest that has been backed up within the last 48 hours. This includes decommissioned clients.
EMC Avamar
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
• Avamar provided client data in the last 48 hours
• it is an Avamar server
• the client is not in the Avamar MC_RETIRED domain
EMC NetWorker
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
• the client resource is active
• the client was backed up (or had a backup attempt) within the last 48 hours
• the client is a media server or a master server
• the client is a VM guest that has been backed up within the last 48 hours. This includes decommissioned clients.
Generic Backups
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
• the client was backed up (or had a backup attempt) within the last 48 hours
• for generic backups, only the jobs are captured.
HP Data Protector
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
• the backup specification is active
• the client was backed up (or had a backup attempt) within the last 48 hours
• the client is a media server or a master server
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
Node’s client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
• the client is a media server or a master server
• the client was backed up (or had a backup attempt) within the last 48 hours
• counts all unique TSM clients for which any of the corresponding nodes on those clients have communicated with their TSM server/instance within the past 45 days (In TSM, this is NODES.LASTACC_TIME)
Veritas Backup Exec
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
• data was collected within the last 48 hours
• the client was backed up (or had a backup attempt) within the last 48 hours
• the client is a media server or a master server
Veritas NetBackup
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
• the client is part of an active backup policy and the policy exists in the NetBackup catalog (if deleted in NetBackup, the Portal does not count them)
• the client was backed up (or had a backup attempt) in the last 48 hours. This includes decommissioned clients.
• the client is a media server or a master server
Fabric Manager
• counts licensed switch ports
For example, licensing checks if the switch has been licensed from the vendor, such as Brocade.
Replication Manager
• counts the number of NetApp filers/arrays
• For Replication Manager, you may have more arrays in your enterprise than you have Replication Manager licenses. In this case, StorageConsole reports on the first n arrays that are probed for data, where n is the license count for Replication Manager arrays.
• If you are licensed for both Capacity Manager and Replication Manager, the Capacity Manager license must cover the total raw capacity of all arrays in your enterprise, including the raw capacity of the licensed Replication Manager arrays.
Virtualization Manager
• counts the number of ESX servers
File Analytics
• counts the total utilized capacity of all the shares and volumes
Note: Once File Analytics data is collected, it cannot be removed from the license count.