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HPE 3PAR Software Products
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In the spindle based licensing approach, there is a different SKU available for each combination of drive capacity and drive type.
Based on the specific drives being purchased for a HPE 3PAR Storage system, the corresponding software SKU needs to be
purchased. This purchase should be done for all the drives on the system irrespective of the number of drives or nodes or capacity
of the system.
In the simplified spindle based licensing approach, every software title has a Base LTU which needs to be purchased once for a
system. For every drive or drive magazine added to the system thereon, a drive LTU (for 7000) or a drive magazine LTU (for
10000) has to be purchased for the system respectively. The drive LTU or the drive magazine LTU for a particular platform is a
single SKU irrespective of the drive type or drive capacity. Furthermore, based on the type of HPE
3PAR Storage system, there is a
specific number of drives beyond which any software title is not required to be purchased for that system.
The All Inclusive licensing approach bundles all software titles that work on a single array as part of the array controller. Software
titles that need more than one array to function are in the optional multi-system All Inclusive license.
The following table shows the maximum drive limits for each of the HPE
3PAR Storage systems that support the simplified spindle
based licensing approach:
HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage
Maximum number of drives for
licensing*
Comments
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7200 Storage
48 drives
-
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7200c Storage
48 drives
-
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7400 Storage
168 drives
-
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7400c Storage
168 drives
-
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7440c Storage
320 drives
-
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7450 Storage
no limit
-
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7450c Storage
168 drives
-
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 10400 Storage
320 drives
80 drive
magazines
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 10800 Storage
640 drives
160 drive
magazines
NOTE: *For a simplified spindle based software offering no further licensing is required for a system beyond these drive counts
.
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000, 9000, and 20000 arrays with All-inclusive licensing does not require licenses for each drive and
hence does not have maximum drive limit.
The capacity based licensing approach is limited to specific software titles and restricted to specific 3PAR StoreServ mod
el. For the
replication software titles available on 3PAR StoreServ 10000, the capacity based licensing approach involves licensing the
software product based on the provisioned usable capacity in the system that is marked for any of the replication functions. For
example, if a customer plans to user HPE 3PAR Remote Copy for replication of a 16TB volume (Fully provisioned) to a DR site,
then 16TB of HPE 3PAR Remote Copy licenses need to be purchased for that particular system. Please note that the provisioned
usable capacity of volume allocated as target of replication on the DR site, should also be licensed in the same way. Capacit
y based
licensing is also available for the HPE 3PAR File Persona Software Suite. The software title has a 1TB software LTU for HPE 3PAR
StoreServ 7000c series models. The 1TB software LTU for a particular platform is a single SKU irrespective of the drive type or
drive capacity. Specific number of 1TB LTUs need to be purchased for every TB used by that software title.
The following table shows the licensing models used in the various HPE 3PAR Storage platforms:
Licensing Scheme
Spindle Based
Licensing
Simplified Spindle
Based Licensing
Capacity Based
Licensing
All Inclusive
Licensing
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage
No
Yes
No
No
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7000c Storage
No
Yes
Yes**
No
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 Storage
No
Yes****
Yes****
Yes
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 9000 Storage
No
No
No
Yes