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June 26th, 2013 23:00

DIsk Licensing

We'd like to retire a series-20 array, but move an enclosure and its disks over to another compellent array.  Will my disk licenses attached to the series-20 I'm trying to retire, transfer to my other series-30 array?  I'm collapsing workloads from the series-20 to the series-30 and don't want to have to purchase additional licensing if i don't have to.  The enclosure and disk models I'm wanting to transfer are already being used in the series-30 so there's no compatibility issues, just curious about the licensing.

Regards,

Andy

  • Truex

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    Posted June 27th, 2013 05:00

    I have always heard from Compellent (no change from Dell either) that the licensing follows the disks. I moved from Series 20 to 40 a couple of years ago and no disk licensing changes. I did the same from Series 20s to series 8000 in December and same thing.

    My opinion is you will be fine. Quick call to Copilot should confirm.

  • mtanen

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    Posted June 27th, 2013 06:00

    Unless you are on Enterprise Licensing (96 spindles or more) you can not just move disks between systems without purchasing licensing. In my experience transfers and consolidations are not permitted.