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Going from Storage Foundation Standard (v4) to Basic?

elanmbx
Level 6

We have a number of systems which were purchased a long time ago with SF Standard.  There is no need for use to have Standard since they are within the parameters of needing only Basic (CPUs <=2, vol/fs's <= 4).  Is there any way to "convert" to a Basic license from the Standard license?

Do I have to upgrade to v5 to do this?

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Gaurav_S
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I don't believe an version upgrade is needed... If you just want to replace the standard license with a basic license ... you can delete the old license & enter new license..  but be very sure that basic licensing is serving to all the features you are using ..

# vxlicrep -e   (gives current license report)

# mv /etc/vx/licenses/lic/*   <some_tmp_directory>    (move your current licenses)

# vxlicadd    (add new license)

# vxdctl license init   (initialize new license)

 

One more thing, while entering new license, make sure you have a valid license .. till 3.5 license keys use to be numeric however 4.x onwards, it became alpha-numeric...


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Gaurav_S
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I don't believe an version upgrade is needed... If you just want to replace the standard license with a basic license ... you can delete the old license & enter new license..  but be very sure that basic licensing is serving to all the features you are using ..

# vxlicrep -e   (gives current license report)

# mv /etc/vx/licenses/lic/*   <some_tmp_directory>    (move your current licenses)

# vxlicadd    (add new license)

# vxdctl license init   (initialize new license)

 

One more thing, while entering new license, make sure you have a valid license .. till 3.5 license keys use to be numeric however 4.x onwards, it became alpha-numeric...


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Marianne
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Possibly best to contact Customer Care for license swap: http://customercare.symantec.com/

(Not your reseller - they won't be happy wink )

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