HP XP Performance Advisor Software - Manual (Page 19)

The Performance Advisor trial license expire on month, day, year. Please contact your HP
Representative to purchase the requisite Performance Advisor licenses to avoid disruption of
Performance Advisor services.
Where, month, day, and year is calculated as 120 days from the date when you install HP XP
P9000 Performance Advisor.
Every day, a status message on the number of remaining Instant-on days appears under Comments
in the View License Status section against each XP or P9000 disk array record for which a Permanent
license is not yet installed. For more information on the series of events that follow after an Instant-on
license expires, see
“Instant-on license expiration” (page 19) and “Grace period expiration”
(page 21) .
Related Topics
•
“Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website” (page 29)
•
“Installing licenses” (page 30)
Instant-on license expiration
The Instant-on license expires when one of the following conditions are met:
•
The Instant-on license period of 120 days is over and Permanent license is not yet installed
for any of the monitored XP or P9000 disk arrays, HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor does
the following:
◦ It initiates a grace period of 60 days for all the monitored XP and P9000 disk arrays.
During the grace period, you can monitor unlimited internal raw disk capacities of multiple
XP disk arrays and usable capacities of multiple P9000 disk arrays. You can also perform
all the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor related operations on the XP and the P9000
disk arrays. It includes collecting the configuration data for additional internal raw disk
capacities on the XP disk arrays or usable capacities on the P9000 disk arrays. The
configuration data collection is possible only until the date, the current grace period is
valid. After the grace period expires, you cannot perform new configuration data collection
on any of the monitored XP and P9000 disk arrays, for which Permanent licenses are not
installed.
◦ The following changes are displayed on the License screen for each XP or P9000 disk
array record:
Description Screen elements
Displays the type of the XP or the P9000 disk array
that is being monitored by HP XP P9000 Performance
Advisor. Hardware Platform
Displays the serial number of the XP or the P9000
disk array. Serial Number
Displays the total internal raw disk capacity of an XP
disk array or the usable capacity of a P9500 disk
array. Array Capacity (TB)
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