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With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes in the "lslicense" output obsolete, such as e.g:
license_flash
license_remote
license_virtualization
"classic" SVC and Storwize Models are however still using the legacy license modelling and those attributes are essential to evaluate the license utilization of each licensed feature.
When using monitoring tools which check the license utilization in hybrid Storage Virtualize Cluster enviroments (e.g. consisting of Storwize, SVC, Flashystem) these monitoring tools fail to conduct a generic license utilization check as the interpretation of the utilization depends in fact on the hardware model (and hence the license entitlement) of each system.
One approach for configuring the monitoring tool would be to check for the machinetype/model - but this is not really feasible as it is quite hard to maintain a proper Regex/filter to isolate the correct models all the time.
For a clean approach I would like to have the entitlement information about the licensing model being used included in the lslicense output, so that it's easier to distinguish whether the monitored system uses "all inclusive" entitlement or the "legacy" license model used by e.g. SVC and Storwize. Depending on this "flag" the monitoring tools can be tweaked to conduct proper license utilization checks.
Idea priority | Low |
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