You need to turn on the flexscale.enable option in order to activate the FlashCache (PAMII) modules in your controllers, otherwise they won't actually do anything. The pamii or flash_cahce license simply gives you the ability to enable that flexscale option, but just because the license is present does not mean the cards are actually activated and on.
flexscale.enable on
Also, the Master Licenses for FlashCache are free and can be found on the NOW site here: https://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/olio/guides/master_lickey/
-----Original Message----- From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Cleverley Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:55 PM To: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Flex_scale licensing question.
Greetings,
I'm confused about the flex_scale licensing. We have installed PAMII modules in 2 of our clusters running 7.3.x. We have a license for pamii, but not for flex_scale. To manage the extended cache, it has us set flexscale.xxx options. Since we don't have flex_scale licensed, are these options doing any good at all?
I didn't know if flex_scale was tied to the old flashcache modules and pamii now incorporates the same thing for the new PAMII cards.
Thanks,
Jeff
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