12-16-2015 03:45 PM
Hi all,
I want to know my VCS license support how many nodes. What can I do?
If I want to add more nodes, I should change license on all of the nodes?
Thanks in advance
Regards,
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01-06-2016 05:52 AM
Your SF/HA version supports keyless installation, but you are supposed to purchase a license within 60 days to be legally compliant.
The software will not stop working though.
PLEASE contact Veritas Customer Care regarding software licensing requirements.
01-06-2016 10:08 AM
There is very little proper checking of licensing in SF and VCS. A given licence key may on paper say it can be used for 1 node or several nodes and I don't believe there is anything in the licence key that tells you how many nodes it is valid for. So it is up to the administrator to check that they have the right amount of keys and at the right tier as you can also apply a low tier licence to a higher tier server, and the licence utility will not complain. VOM is supposed to help with this, but this is very limited too as all VOM lets you do is report on what licences you are using so thay you can compare this with you paper copy. You can put "real" llicences into myveritas.com, and you can run reports in here too, but there is no link between VOM and myveritas.com, so there is a lot of manual work to do to ensure you have the right licences.
Mike
01-06-2016 07:40 PM
Hi,
From technical level,
You needn't give any new license for add nodes.
With keyless feature, you can do anything as you have enough license.
From law level, you need follow sales request.
Here is keyless usage:
# vxkeyless
vxkeyless 1.24, a keyless licensing solution
Usage:
vxkeyless help
vxkeyless displayall
vxkeyless [OPTION] display
vxkeyless [OPTION] set NONE
vxkeyless [OPTION] set product[|,product]
display options:
-v, --verbose display full product descriptions
set options:
-q, --quiet perform quietly assuming yes to any questions asked
# vxkeyless displayall
Product Description
APPLICATIONHA ApplicationHA
APPLICATIONHA_EVAL ApplicationHA (EVALUATION only)
DMP Dynamic Multipathing Native Support
DMP_EVAL Dynamic Multipathing Native Support (EVALUATION only)
SFBASIC Storage Foundation Basic Edition
SFBASIC_EVAL Storage Foundation Basic Edition (EVALUATION only)
SFCFSHAENT SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server
SFCFSHAENT_EVAL SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server (EVALUATION only)
SFCFSHAENT_GCO SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and GCO
SFCFSHAENT_GCO_EVAL SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFCFSHAENT_VFR SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR
SFCFSHAENT_VFR_EVAL SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFCFSHAENT_VFR_GCO SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR & GCO
SFCFSHAENT_VFR_GCO_EVAL SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR & GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFCFSHAENT_VR SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR
SFCFSHAENT_VR_EVAL SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR (EVALUATION only)
SFCFSHAENT_VR_GCO SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR & GCO
SFCFSHAENT_VR_GCO_EVAL SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR & GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFENT Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition
SFENT_EVAL Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition (EVALUATION only)
SFENT_VFR Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition with VFR
SFENT_VFR_EVAL Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition with VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFENT_VR Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition with VR
SFENT_VR_EVAL Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition with VR (EVALUATION only)
SFHAENT SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server
SFHAENT_EVAL SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server (EVALUATION only)
SFHAENT_GCO SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and GCO
SFHAENT_GCO_EVAL SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFHAENT_VFR SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR
SFHAENT_VFR_EVAL SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFHAENT_VFR_GCO SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR & GCO
SFHAENT_VFR_GCO_EVAL SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR & GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFHAENT_VR SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR
SFHAENT_VR_EVAL SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR (EVALUATION only)
SFHAENT_VR_GCO SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR & GCO
SFHAENT_VR_GCO_EVAL SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR & GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFHASTD SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server
SFHASTD_EVAL SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server (EVALUATION only)
SFHASTD_VFR SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server and VFR
SFHASTD_VFR_EVAL SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server and VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFHASTD_VR SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server and VR
SFHASTD_VR_EVAL SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server and VR (EVALUATION only)
SFRACENT SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition
SFRACENT_EVAL SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition (EVALUATION only)
SFRACENT_GCO SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with GCO
SFRACENT_GCO_EVAL SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFRACENT_VFR SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VFR
SFRACENT_VFR_EVAL SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFRACENT_VFR_GCO SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VFR & GCO
SFRACENT_VFR_GCO_EVAL SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VFR & GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFRACENT_VR SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VR
SFRACENT_VR_EVAL SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VR (EVALUATION only)
SFRACENT_VR_GCO SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VR & GCO
SFRACENT_VR_GCO_EVAL SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VR & GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFSTD Storage Foundation Standard Edition
SFSTD_EVAL Storage Foundation Standard Edition (EVALUATION only)
SFSTD_VFR Storage Foundation Standard Edition with VFR
SFSTD_VFR_EVAL Storage Foundation Standard Edition with VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFSTD_VR Storage Foundation Standard Edition with VR
SFSTD_VR_EVAL Storage Foundation Standard Edition with VR (EVALUATION only)
SFSYBASECE SF Sybase ASE CE
SFSYBASECE_EVAL SF Sybase ASE CE (EVALUATION only)
SFSYBASECE_GCO SF Sybase ASE CE GCO
SFSYBASECE_GCO_EVAL SF Sybase ASE CE GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFSYBASECE_VFR SF Sybase ASE CE VFR
SFSYBASECE_VFR_EVAL SF Sybase ASE CE VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFSYBASECE_VFR_GCO SF Sybase ASE CE GCO VFR
SFSYBASECE_VFR_GCO_EVAL SF Sybase ASE CE GCO VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFSYBASECE_VR SF Sybase ASE CE VR
SFSYBASECE_VR_EVAL SF Sybase ASE CE VR (EVALUATION only)
SFSYBASECE_VR_GCO SF Sybase ASE CE GCO VR
SFSYBASECE_VR_GCO_EVAL SF Sybase ASE CE GCO VR (EVALUATION only)
VCS Cluster Server
VCS_EVAL Cluster Server (EVALUATION only)
VCS_GCO Cluster Server with GCO option
VCS_GCO_EVAL Cluster Server with GCO option (EVALUATION only)
#
01-17-2016 08:44 PM
12-18-2015 04:58 AM
Have a look at your license key certificate - there will be a Quantity column.
You need one license per node.
To add more cluster nodes, you need to purchase license keys for each node.
No licensing changes are done on current node(s). You will just add license key on new node(s) when installing the software.
If you are in doubt about your license keys, logon to www.myveritas.com. Click on the Liensing tab.
Or else select Support -> Customer Support to reach out to Customer Care with your licensing queries.
12-18-2015 06:38 AM
12-18-2015 06:39 AM
Thanks for your reply Marianne
Let me explain the situatuon.
I have two servers and it is for 7 month that they are working together as clusters.
I switched over between them and replication is good.
But the problem is that at the first my company asked for two licenses for each server and then the reseller company gave us one license
and said it will work because the VCS is a related software that at least needs 2 servers for clustering. I agree with this. We used the certificate and it worked.
And now I want to be sure about that.
If you mean by this "Have a look at your license key certificate" to run command "vxlicrep -e", I executed this command and I didn't see anything.
I only have access to server, we don't have any access to sold license document.
So?
12-18-2015 08:46 AM
01-05-2016 03:01 AM
ok, ok....
Then, I have two servers and they are working as clusters for seven months.
Recently I configured another server and I changed one of those servers with this new one.
Again without any alarms they worked!
I looked at those piece of paper that you said. on that paper I saw the quantity is 1 !!
I don't want to add any new clusters, I only want to know why there is no alarm!
I think with this new licensing method SPVUs, all of the core on both servers are calculated and because of this there is no alarm.
I don't know. But it is very strange if it works with one license.
I just want to know how does the clustering work.
01-06-2016 02:27 AM
What version are you using?
Regards,
Sudhir
01-06-2016 03:53 AM
The Version i'm using is 6.1 on solaris platform
thanks
01-06-2016 05:52 AM
Your SF/HA version supports keyless installation, but you are supposed to purchase a license within 60 days to be legally compliant.
The software will not stop working though.
PLEASE contact Veritas Customer Care regarding software licensing requirements.
01-06-2016 06:21 AM
i saw the keyless installation message and when i entered the previous license it got accepted by the software.
i undrestand what you mean but it's working for 7 months and there is no problem. as what you said we had to face problems 5 months ago. i can't undrestand this situation that we didn't face any problem and it's working properly. if you're right so i have found a very big bug in veritas installation. what do you think about this?
01-06-2016 10:08 AM
There is very little proper checking of licensing in SF and VCS. A given licence key may on paper say it can be used for 1 node or several nodes and I don't believe there is anything in the licence key that tells you how many nodes it is valid for. So it is up to the administrator to check that they have the right amount of keys and at the right tier as you can also apply a low tier licence to a higher tier server, and the licence utility will not complain. VOM is supposed to help with this, but this is very limited too as all VOM lets you do is report on what licences you are using so thay you can compare this with you paper copy. You can put "real" llicences into myveritas.com, and you can run reports in here too, but there is no link between VOM and myveritas.com, so there is a lot of manual work to do to ensure you have the right licences.
Mike
01-06-2016 12:07 PM
Thank you so much dear mike
As I undrestood nothing is wrong with my licence key because it's been working properly for a long time !
01-06-2016 07:40 PM
Hi,
From technical level,
You needn't give any new license for add nodes.
With keyless feature, you can do anything as you have enough license.
From law level, you need follow sales request.
Here is keyless usage:
# vxkeyless
vxkeyless 1.24, a keyless licensing solution
Usage:
vxkeyless help
vxkeyless displayall
vxkeyless [OPTION] display
vxkeyless [OPTION] set NONE
vxkeyless [OPTION] set product[|,product]
display options:
-v, --verbose display full product descriptions
set options:
-q, --quiet perform quietly assuming yes to any questions asked
# vxkeyless displayall
Product Description
APPLICATIONHA ApplicationHA
APPLICATIONHA_EVAL ApplicationHA (EVALUATION only)
DMP Dynamic Multipathing Native Support
DMP_EVAL Dynamic Multipathing Native Support (EVALUATION only)
SFBASIC Storage Foundation Basic Edition
SFBASIC_EVAL Storage Foundation Basic Edition (EVALUATION only)
SFCFSHAENT SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server
SFCFSHAENT_EVAL SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server (EVALUATION only)
SFCFSHAENT_GCO SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and GCO
SFCFSHAENT_GCO_EVAL SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFCFSHAENT_VFR SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR
SFCFSHAENT_VFR_EVAL SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFCFSHAENT_VFR_GCO SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR & GCO
SFCFSHAENT_VFR_GCO_EVAL SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR & GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFCFSHAENT_VR SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR
SFCFSHAENT_VR_EVAL SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR (EVALUATION only)
SFCFSHAENT_VR_GCO SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR & GCO
SFCFSHAENT_VR_GCO_EVAL SF Cluster File System Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR & GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFENT Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition
SFENT_EVAL Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition (EVALUATION only)
SFENT_VFR Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition with VFR
SFENT_VFR_EVAL Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition with VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFENT_VR Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition with VR
SFENT_VR_EVAL Storage Foundation Enterprise Edition with VR (EVALUATION only)
SFHAENT SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server
SFHAENT_EVAL SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server (EVALUATION only)
SFHAENT_GCO SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and GCO
SFHAENT_GCO_EVAL SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFHAENT_VFR SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR
SFHAENT_VFR_EVAL SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFHAENT_VFR_GCO SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR & GCO
SFHAENT_VFR_GCO_EVAL SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VFR & GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFHAENT_VR SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR
SFHAENT_VR_EVAL SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR (EVALUATION only)
SFHAENT_VR_GCO SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR & GCO
SFHAENT_VR_GCO_EVAL SF Enterprise Edition with Cluster Server and VR & GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFHASTD SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server
SFHASTD_EVAL SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server (EVALUATION only)
SFHASTD_VFR SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server and VFR
SFHASTD_VFR_EVAL SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server and VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFHASTD_VR SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server and VR
SFHASTD_VR_EVAL SF Standard Edition with Cluster Server and VR (EVALUATION only)
SFRACENT SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition
SFRACENT_EVAL SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition (EVALUATION only)
SFRACENT_GCO SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with GCO
SFRACENT_GCO_EVAL SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFRACENT_VFR SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VFR
SFRACENT_VFR_EVAL SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFRACENT_VFR_GCO SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VFR & GCO
SFRACENT_VFR_GCO_EVAL SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VFR & GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFRACENT_VR SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VR
SFRACENT_VR_EVAL SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VR (EVALUATION only)
SFRACENT_VR_GCO SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VR & GCO
SFRACENT_VR_GCO_EVAL SF Oracle RAC Enterprise Edition with VR & GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFSTD Storage Foundation Standard Edition
SFSTD_EVAL Storage Foundation Standard Edition (EVALUATION only)
SFSTD_VFR Storage Foundation Standard Edition with VFR
SFSTD_VFR_EVAL Storage Foundation Standard Edition with VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFSTD_VR Storage Foundation Standard Edition with VR
SFSTD_VR_EVAL Storage Foundation Standard Edition with VR (EVALUATION only)
SFSYBASECE SF Sybase ASE CE
SFSYBASECE_EVAL SF Sybase ASE CE (EVALUATION only)
SFSYBASECE_GCO SF Sybase ASE CE GCO
SFSYBASECE_GCO_EVAL SF Sybase ASE CE GCO (EVALUATION only)
SFSYBASECE_VFR SF Sybase ASE CE VFR
SFSYBASECE_VFR_EVAL SF Sybase ASE CE VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFSYBASECE_VFR_GCO SF Sybase ASE CE GCO VFR
SFSYBASECE_VFR_GCO_EVAL SF Sybase ASE CE GCO VFR (EVALUATION only)
SFSYBASECE_VR SF Sybase ASE CE VR
SFSYBASECE_VR_EVAL SF Sybase ASE CE VR (EVALUATION only)
SFSYBASECE_VR_GCO SF Sybase ASE CE GCO VR
SFSYBASECE_VR_GCO_EVAL SF Sybase ASE CE GCO VR (EVALUATION only)
VCS Cluster Server
VCS_EVAL Cluster Server (EVALUATION only)
VCS_GCO Cluster Server with GCO option
VCS_GCO_EVAL Cluster Server with GCO option (EVALUATION only)
#
01-17-2016 08:01 PM
01-17-2016 08:02 PM
I read about keyless feature
As I understood with keyless feature everything work, but without any support.
I test the vxlicrep -e on both servers and the result for both of them was:
VXKEYLESS = Disabled
Everything is clear now. I know that from the law level I should have two license for two node but if one of them goes down(hardware maybe)
I can replace a new server with the license of correpted server, am I right?
I think this is the last question. :)
Regards
01-17-2016 08:44 PM
I read about keyless feature
As I understood with keyless feature everything work, but without any support.
I test the vxlicrep -e on both servers and the result for both of them was:
VXKEYLESS = Disabled
Everything is clear now. I know that from the law level I should have two license for two node but if one of them goes down(hardware maybe)
I can replace a new server with the license of correpted server, am I right?
I think this is the last question. :)
Regards