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Violating licensed capacity – HP XP Performance Advisor Software User Manual

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5.

As the usable capacity is beyond the Permanent licensed capacity, HP XP7 Performance
Advisor uses the 100TB-Days of Meter based Term license.

Based on the usable capacity consumed, HP XP7 Performance Advisor uses the appropriate
TB-Days of Meter based Term license. Following are sample consumptions from day 1 to day
3:

11/30/2010: 51.5TB monitored using 52TB-Days

12/01/2010: 20.3TB monitored using 21TB-Days

12/02/2010: 24.9TB monitored using 25TB-Days

6.

As 4TB usable capacity is remaining and only 2TB-Days are available, HP XP7 Performance
Advisor does the following:
a.

Enters 60 days grace period after 1:00 PM on 12/02/2010 and updates the following
fields with the latest TB-Days data:

License Capacity: Displays 75TB, +2TB-Days

License Status: Capacity Insufficient

Term (Days): 0

End Date: Expired

b.

Begins reducing the installed TB-Days by 20TB every day starting from 12/03/2010,
which is shown as follows:

On 12/03/2010, 2TB-Days are reduced to –18TB-Days

On 12/04/2010, –18TB-Days are reduced to –38TB-Days

On 12/05/2010, –38TB-Days are reduced to –58TB-Days

7.

The reduction in TB-Days continues till you install the appropriate TB-Days of Meter based
Term license, so that HP XP7 Performance Advisor does the following:

Shows positive TB-Days

Ends the grace period for the particular XP7 disk array

8.

So, if you want to install TB-Days on 12/05/2010 for a duration of five days, generate
160TB-Days of Meter based Term license. Out of the 160TB-Days:

60TB-Days (3 days * 20TB) are used to nullify the reduction in installed TB-Days.

100TB-Days (5 days * 20TB) is required for HP XP7 Performance Advisor to continue
monitoring the 20TB usable capacity for another five days.

With 160TB-Days, HP XP7 Performance Advisor ends the grace period and continues to
monitor the 20TB usable capacity for another five days.

Violating licensed capacity

After 60 days of grace period, HP XP7 Performance Advisor considers it as a capacity violation
and stops configuration data collection for any additional internal raw disk or usable capacity. It
continues the existing performance data collection.

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