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How to do an Enterprise PowerPath Inventory
I am a partner pre-sales SE, trying to help one of our larger clients inventory all of their PowerPath licensing for EMC maintenance purposes. Some licenses have been installed in a licensing server, so those are easy. But, so many of the others have been installed on individual servers that may or may not still be in use.
Is there a good methodology for identifying all PP licensing throughout an enterprise? Is there a way, from the storage arrays' perspective, which hosts have PP installed (and which do not)?
Thanks in advance,
Eric
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November 15th, 2016 11:00
Bob, thanks for your response. It looks like the Appliance can be given a range of IP addresses to sweep and search for PP license instances, FYI.
In any case, we can query the storage arrays to divulge their connected hosts, and then search those hosts for PP via the Appliance.
Thanks for the info.
umichklewis
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November 15th, 2016 08:00
For VMAX, this is easy. You can use Solutions Enabler to list all the connected hosts, and see the version of PowerPath that's installed.
Butch777
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November 15th, 2016 10:00
Eric - I've seen some good customer success recently in counting PowerPath hosts by extending the PowerPath license server (now called PowerPath Management Appliance) to monitor PowerPath physical hosts.
One caveat - in order to turn on the PowerPath management component you'll need to touch the physical hosts.If you are not sure which hosts are still active (and running PowerPath) then this approach may not fit your objective.
ViPR SRM also counts PowerPath licenses on each host.
Bob