- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Revision history
- Initial configuration and setup
- Performing common tasks
- Expanding PowerFlex storage
- Displaying system information at a glance
- Managing block storage after PowerFlex deployment
- Protection domains
- Fault sets
- Storage data servers
- Storage pools
- Acceleration pools
- Devices
- Volumes
- NVMe targets
- Hosts
- Managing file storage
- High availability
- Multitenancy
- Overview of configuring NAS servers
- About file system storage
- File protection
- Create a protection policy
- Create snapshot rules
- Create a snapshot
- Modify a snapshot
- Delete a snapshot
- Assign a protection policy to a file system
- Unassign a protection policy
- Modify a protection policy
- Delete a protection policy
- Modify a snapshot rule
- Delete a snapshot rule
- Refresh a file system using snapshot
- Restore a file system from a snapshot
- Clone NAS server and file system
- Clone the file system
- Create a thin clone using a snapshot
- Protecting a block storage environment
- Snapshots
- Create snapshots
- Overwrite volume content from a snapshot
- Set bandwidth and IOPS limits for snapshots
- Lock and unlock snapshots
- Delete snapshots
- Map snapshots
- Unmap snapshots
- Increase the size of a snapshot
- Migrate a snapshot vTree
- Pause snapshot vTree migration
- Roll back snapshot vTree migration
- Set snapshot vTree migration priority
- Snapshot policies
- Remote protection
- Extract and upload certificates
- Journal capacity
- Add a peer system
- Restart the replication cluster
- SDRs
- Replication consistency group
- Replication direction and mapping
- Create a replication consistency group
- Map RCG target volumes to hosts
- Unmap a host from RCG target volumes
- Set the target to inconsistent mode
- Set the target to consistent mode
- Modify the recovery point objective
- Add a replication pair to an RCG
- Pause replication for an RCG
- Resume replication for an RCG
- Create a snapshot of an RCG volume
- Add an RCG snapshot policy
- Perform a failover
- Reverse replication
- Restore replication
- Test Failover
- Stop a failover test
- Freeze an RCG
- Unfreeze an RCG
- Activate an RCG
- Terminate replication in an RCG
- Delete an RCG
- Pause creation of an initial copy
- Resume creation of initial copy
- Set copying priority
- Unpair from RCG
- Snapshots
- Performing lifecycle operations for a resource group
- Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
- Basic tasks
- Deploying a resource group
- Adding an existing resource group
- Updating a resource group with new firmware and software
- Viewing a compliance report
- Entering and exiting service mode
- Replacing a drive
- Replacing NVDIMM node or battery
- Reconfiguring MDM roles
- Migrating vCLS VMs to shared storage
- Adding components to a resource group
- Resize a volume
- Removing resources from a resource group
- Adding NVMe/TCP storage access
- Replacing the operating system for a node
- Additional resource group management tasks
- Basic tasks
- Preparing a template for a resource group deployment
- Basic tasks
- Additional template management tasks
- Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
- Managing resources
- Basic tasks
- Discover a resource
- Viewing resource details
- Update resource inventory
- Viewing a compliance report for a resource
- Updating firmware and software
- Removing resources
- Additional resource management tasks
- Basic tasks
- Monitoring events and alerts
- Configuring system settings
- User management
- Repositories
- Getting started
- Networking
- Events and alerts
- License management
- Security
- Serviceability
- Software upgrade
- PowerFlex Manager user interface reference
- Maintenance for a PowerFlex controller node
- Retrieving logs for the PowerFlex nodes
- Retrieving logs for PowerFlex components
- Retrieving additional PowerFlex logs
- Enabling audit logging
- Managing storage devices using CloudLink
- Understanding NVMe over TCP load balancing
- Managing NAS server configuration
- Migrating to NVMe over TCP on VMware ESXi
Dell PowerFlex 4.6.x Administration Guide
Upload a PowerFlex license
You can upload PowerFlex licenses in PowerFlex Manager.
About this task
You can upload a PowerFlex license file for two use cases:
- Production license for a single system and if you have a PowerFlex appliance or PowerFlex rack
- Management data store (MDS) license for the PowerFlex management controller
In either case, the license is a single file.
No license is required for the first 90 days of use. During this period, you are running PowerFlex in trial mode, and all features are enabled. PowerFlex Manager shows an alert on the page when you are running in trial mode.
Prerequisites
Steps
- Log in to PowerFlex Manager.
- On the menu bar, click Settings and then click License Management.
- Click PowerFlex License.
- To upload an MDS license, click Choose File to Browse in the Management Data Store (MDS) License section, select the license file, and click Open.
- Click Save.
- To upload a production license for PowerFlex, click Choose File to Browse in the Production License section, select the license file, and click Open.
- Click Save.
Results
When you upload a license file, PowerFlex Manager checks the license file to ensure that it is valid.
After the upload is complete, PowerFlex Manager stores the license details and displays them on the PowerFlex Manager License page. You can see the installation ID, system name, and SWID for PowerFlex. In addition, you can see the total licensed capacity and the license capacity left.
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