Dell PowerVault DX6112, Administrator'S Manual

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For more information about system software upgrades, see Software Upgrade Page and Options .
License
License—click this option to display the License page, where there are two panes: License File Location and Number of
Installed Licenses. The License page is where you locate the corresponding license file for the installed data storage
expansion shelf.
In the License File Location pane, enter the location on the local disk (or a known network location) where the expansion
shelf license file has been downloaded (typically, it is /store/license), or click Browse... to navigate to another directory/
folder path location where the license file (license.xml) resides. Once located, click Install License to install and validate
the license file for the installed data storage expansion shelf.
After installing and validating the license file, the License page displays a License file has been successfully installed
dialog, and the Number of Installed Licenses summary table is updated with the new license file you just installed. The
Number of Installed Licenses pane contains a summary table that lists and identifies each installed license by ID,
description, entitlement ID, and current status.
For more information about the supported data storage expansion shelf or the licenses needed for an expansion shelf,
see
Expansion Shelf Licenses and Installing an Expansion Shelf .
Expansion Shelf Licenses
This topic introduces the license required for adding external data storage in the form of Dell MD1200 storage arrays
that are referred to as expansion shelf enclosures. Expansion shelf enclosures allow you to add supplemental data
storage capacity to support DR Series system operations. The DR Series system supports up to maximum of two
enclosures per system, and any expansion shelf enclosure that is added must be equal to or greater than each DR
Series system internal drive slot capacity (0–11). Expansion shelf enclosures can be added to the internal data storage
to create up to 9, 18, or 27 Terabyte (TB) hard drive capacities, and expansion shelf enclosures can be added in 1 TB, 2
TB, or 3 TB capacities. Licenses define the expansion shelf enclosure size in a license = size format (for example, shelf =
18TB), and licenses are added on a per-shelf basis.
Table 4. Expansion Shelf Capacities in the DR Series System
System/Expansion Shelf Enclosure Size Maximum Data Storage Capacity Options
600 Gigabyte (GB) expansion shelf
• 9 TB
• 18 TB
• 27 TB
1 TB expansion shelf
• 9 TB
• 18 TB
• 27 TB
2 TB expansion shelf
• 18 TB
• 27 TB
3 TB expansion
• 27 TB
Licenses
Adding an expansion shelf enclosure requires that you order a license for each enclosure from a Dell Account
representative at the time that you order the DR Series system. You can also order this at a later date when you want to
add additional external storage to your base DR Series system. To obtain the license, you can download it from the
support.dell.com/ website using your service tag or use an email link from your Dell Account representative.
If you already have a Dell MD1200 storage array, the order process supports licensing for existing hardware that you
want to add to a base DR Series system. Each license supports one expansion shelf enclosure, and the system supports
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