Users Guide

• E-mail — License is attached to an e-mail that is sent after requesting it from the technical support

center.

• Self-service portal — A link to the Self-Service Portal is available from CMC. Click this link to open the

licensing Self-Service Portal on the internet from where you can purchase licenses. For more

information, see the online help for the self-service portal page.

• Point-of-sale — License is acquired while placing the order for a system.

License operations

Before you perform the license management tasks, make sure to acquire the licenses. For more

information, see the Acquiring Licenses section and Overview and Feature Guide available at dell.com/

support.

NOTE: If you have purchased a system with all the licenses pre-installed, then license management

is not required.

You can perform the following licensing operations using CMC, RACADM, and WS-MAN for one-to-one

license management, and Dell License Manager for one-to-many license management:

• View — View the current license information for CMC and storage sleds.

• Import — After acquiring the license, store the license in a local storage and import it into CMC using

one of the supported interfaces. The license is imported if it passes the validation checks.

NOTE: For a few features, a CMC restart may be required to enable the features.

You can also import licenses for storage sleds that are installed in a chassis and when the storage

sleds are powered off. If a storage sled is already licensed, delete the existing license before importing

a new one. The imported license is stored in the CMC license manager and storage sled persistent

store. The licensed features are available only if the RAID is reset when the host server is rebooted.

You can import storage sled licenses only to the targeted device.

• Export — Export the installed license into an external storage device backup or to reinstall it after a

service part is replaced. The file name and format of the exported license is <EntitlementID>.xml

• Delete — Delete the license that is assigned to a component or storage sled if the component or

storage sled is missing. After the license is deleted, it is not stored in CMC and the base product

functions are enabled.

You can delete storage sled licenses only when the storage sled is powered off. Deleted licenses are

removed from the storage sled persistent store and the License Manager.

• Replace — Replace the license to extend an evaluation license, change a license type such as an

evaluation license with a purchased license, or extend an expired license.

For storage sleds, the new license overwrites the existing license in the CMC license manager and the

storage sled persistent store. Power off the storage sleds before replacing the license. The licensed

features are available only after the RAID controller is reset at the next host reboot.

• An evaluation license may be replaced with an upgraded evaluation license or with a purchased

license.

• A purchased license may be replaced with an updated license or with an upgraded license. For more

information, see Dell Software License Management Portal available at WWW.DELL.COM/SUPPORT/

LICENSING/US/EN/19

• Learn More — Learn more about an installed license, or the licenses available for a component

installed in the server.

NOTE: For the Learn More option to display the correct page, make sure that *.dell.com is

added to the list of Trusted Sites in the Security Settings. For more information, see the Internet

Explorer help documentation.