Managing and activating licensed functions is your responsibility.
Management refers to the use of the IBM Disk Storage Feature Activation
(DSFA) Web site to select a license scope and to assign a license value. You
will perform these activities and then activate the function.
Note: If you are activating features for any of the licensed
functions, such as Copy Services, all the features must have the same capacity,
including the operating environment license feature.
Activation refers to the retrieval and installation of the feature activation
code into the DS6000™ system.
The feature activation code is obtained using the DSFA Web site and is based
on the license scope and license value.
You perform these activities at the following times:
- After the IBM service representative has installed your storage unit and
before you configure it
- When you increase the extent of the function authorization for a licensed
function (that is, you add additional capacity to your license)
- When you reallocate function authorizations between images on Model
To perform these activities, you must access the DSFA Web site at
http://www.ibm.com/storage/dsfa
When you access DSFA, you must enter information about your DS8000 storage
unit so the Web application can access the correct function authorization
records. You can find the information you must enter into DSFA on the Storage
Unit General Properties page in the IBM® System
Storage™ DS Storage Manager application.