License requirements
Before you use Dynamic Provisioning, the Dynamic Provisioning must be installed on the storage system.
Before you use the capacity saving function, Dynamic Provisioning and dedupe and compression must be installed on the storage system.
Before you use Dynamic Tiering, Dynamic Provisioning and Dynamic Tiering must be installed on the storage system.
You need the Dynamic Tiering license to access the total capacity of the pool with the tier function enabled.
For Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, and active flash, the same license capacity as the DP-VOLs is required.
For Dynamic Tiering, and active flash, the same license capacity as the pool capacity is required.
For active flash, the same license capacity as the pool capacity is required.
Before you use active flash, the Dynamic Provisioning, and Dynamic Tiering software must be installed on the storage system.
If the DP-VOLs of Dynamic Provisioning or Dynamic Tiering are used for the primary volumes and secondary volumes of ShadowImage, TrueCopy, Universal Replicator, Volume Migration, global-active device, or Thin Image, you will need the ShadowImage, TrueCopy, Universal Replicator, Volume Migration, global-active device, and Thin Image licenses for the total pool capacity in use.
If you expand a Dynamic Provisioning pool that contains Thin Image pairs and snapshot data, the licensed capacity for both Dynamic Provisioning and Thin Image is required.
If you exceed the licensed capacity, you will be able to use the additional unlicensed capacity for 30 days. For more information about temporary license capacity, see the System Administrator Guide.