02-19-2015 12:05 AM
I'm going through some old license purchases, and i've come across a substantial number of Storage Foundation Standard licenses of various license tiers.
It also looks like some of the purchases were made on one tiering system (1A, 4C etc), and others were made on a different system (A-N)
Does anyone have any guidance on how I interpret these tiers to confirm what my license entitlement is?
Thanks
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02-19-2015 02:12 AM
Old tier to new tier is:
old tier | new tier |
1A | A |
1B | B |
1C | C |
2A | D |
2B | E |
2C | F |
3A | G |
3B | H |
3C | J |
Mike
02-19-2015 01:02 AM
Sounds like VERY old licenses.... When last did you renew maintenance?
Only letters have been used in recent years (A, B, C..), no longer combination of nubers and letters.
SUN V240 will for example be Tier A.
With renewed maintenance you should be able to see your current entitlement on the Licensing Portal:
https://licensing.symantec.com
Symantec has also added a new preferred way of licensing - Symantec Performance Value Unit (SPVU)
See https://sort.symantec.com/land/inventory_licenses
You can find SPVU calculator as well as Server Tier calculator over here: https://sort.symantec.com/spvu_calc
02-19-2015 01:09 AM
The licenses in question are version 5. I'm working on an inventory project to account for all our old purchases, hence the query.
Is there anywhere I can get details of the older tiering structure? Or the new one for that matter, without having to look machines up individually on SORT?
02-19-2015 02:12 AM
Old tier to new tier is:
old tier | new tier |
1A | A |
1B | B |
1C | C |
2A | D |
2B | E |
2C | F |
3A | G |
3B | H |
3C | J |
Mike
02-19-2015 02:17 AM
Thanks Mike, that's really helpful.
Based off that, am I right in assuming the following as well?
old tier | new tier |
4A | K |
4B | L |
4C | M |
4D | N |
02-19-2015 05:33 AM
Yes - I got this info from the pricetier.txt file that you download for VOM (https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/vom/4.1/windowsandunix/productguides/html/vom_admin_4_1/c...) so then ran "grep "server_tier" pricetier.txt | sort -u" which gives:
"server_tier" : "1A / A",
"server_tier" : "1B / B",
"server_tier" : "1C / C",
"server_tier" : "1C / D",
"server_tier" : "2B / E",
"server_tier" : "2C / F",
"server_tier" : "3A / G",
"server_tier" : "3B / H",
"server_tier" : "3B / H",
"server_tier" : "3C / J",
"server_tier" : "3C / J",
"server_tier" : "4A / K",
"server_tier" : "4B / L",
"server_tier" : "4B / L",
"server_tier" : "4C / M",
"server_tier" : "4C / M",
"server_tier" : "4D / N",
"server_tier" : "4D / N",
Mike
02-19-2015 06:32 AM
Brilliant, thank Mike. Much appreciated!
02-19-2015 06:36 AM
You can confirm that those tiers are still valid for your current servers with the Server Tier calculator over here: