Cautions on licenses

Observe the following precautions when working with licenses:

olh-caution.gif If you use Dynamic Provisioning, the licensed capacity might become insufficient because the used capacity of Dynamic Provisioning pools could increase even if you do not add any volumes. If this occurs, you must purchase an additional license within 30 days to cover the capacity shortage. For details on how to calculate pool capacity, see the and the Provisioning Guide.

olh-caution.gif When you remove Data Retention Utility an error might occur even if the Permitted Volumes column of the License Keys window indicates that the licensed capacity is 0 TB.

To resolve the Data Retention Utility error and continue removal:

  1. Click Actions > Other Function > Data Retention to open the Data Retention window.

  1. In the Data Retention window, find logical volumes that are unusable as S-VOLs (secondary volumes).

  1. Change the settings so that the logical volumes are usable as S-VOLs.

  1. Uninstall Data Retention Utility.

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