Hi Steven - thanks for the link - yes, I can get to it sound like I should add a license command prior to giveback to verify all the features I need are still licensed properly? (or would giveback flag mismatched licenses ?)
thanks
giveback will probably flag a bunch of mismatches since a lot more "always on" licenses will appear.
its better to pre-flight the new packaging for your platform and make sure that the package keys are installed prior to upgrade.
Typically you would've gotten all of the keys, there are odd (non-normal) cases where you might have gotten one of the child keys without purchasing the actual package, you'd need to resolve that with the sales team prior to upgrade or you'll have the problems I mentioned.
You can, if you want install the package keys after upgrade but I'm assuming you want to minimize any outage/disruption.
steve.
From: Fletcher Cocquyt [mailto:fcocquyt@stanford.edu] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:49 PM To: Yee, Steven Cc: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: any licensing issues NDU 7.3.5.1P2 -> 8.1RC2?
Hi Steven - thanks for the link - yes, I can get to it sound like I should add a license command prior to giveback to verify all the features I need are still licensed properly? (or would giveback flag mismatched licenses ?)
thanks -- Fletcher
On Feb 3, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Yee, Steven wrote:
not sending this out to the dl, not sure if the KB link I'm sending has been made public yet .. (it should be, but one never knows)
https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&actp=LIST&id=S:3013...
The 8.1 licensing uses the new packaging, but the packaging mapping is dependent on the platform type. It looks like your standby cluster is a FAS 32xx or 62xx because that's the new packaging for those machines. Not sure what machine you're starting with. The only time you really have a problem is if you were using a feature that is now part of a "package" but you had never installed the "package key" (eg the feature that represents the whole package) then on upgrade the feature will disable until the package key is installed.
The only other issue is that if you try and use one of the "always included" features (like multistore on a 62xx) for the first time you will notice that there is now a new on/off switch. If the key was installed previously, then on upgrade that on/off option should be set to 'on' but if you have issues during upgrade you will want to check that first.
steve.
From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.netmailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net]mailto:[mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Fletcher Cocquyt Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:05 PM To: toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net Subject: any licensing issues NDU 7.3.5.1P2 -> 8.1RC2?
WIll I run into any license issues during this NDU? Hate to be trying to get a license code at 3am... The ones that are critical are NFS, Multistore and snap mirror
The 7.3.5.1P2 systems have license codes for:
a_sis cluster cluster_remote flex_clone flexcache_nfs http iscsi multistore nearstore_option nfs snapmirror snapmirror_sync snapmover snaprestore syncmirror_local
I noticed our standby cluster (already running 8.1.RC2) lists:
a_sis ENABLED cf CODE cf_remote CODE compression ENABLED disk_sanitization ENABLED flash_cache ENABLED flex_scale ENABLED flexcache_nfs ENABLED http ENABLED iscsi CODE multistore ENABLED nearstore_option ENABLED nfs CODE operations_manager ENABLED persistent_archive ENABLED protection_manager ENABLED provisioning_manager ENABLED snapmirror CODE snapmirror_sync ENABLED snapmover ENABLED snaprestore CODE storage_services ENABLED sv_linux_pri ENABLED sv_unix_pri ENABLED sv_vi_pri ENABLED sv_windows_ofm_pri ENABLED sv_windows_pri ENABLED syncmirror_local CODE vld ENABLED
thanks
-- Fletcher
I've asked my SE to check into this thanks