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Balance eval key for V-series

cabibbom
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I provided my customer an eval key for Balance, it works on their FAS systems, but not on their V-series.  When I used the eval key generator with their V-series serial number it gave me the same license key as for their FAS.  Is there a different key for V-series?

System is a V3250 running ONTAP 8.1.2P3 7-mode.

Overview

The Evaluation License application provides special time-based license keys that allow you to evaluate Filer, V-Series Series system and NearStores features, as well as those for some client-side products.

Submitter Email:     Michael.Cabibbo2@netapp.com

Date:     26-Sep-2013

      

License/Feature:     OnCommand Balance

License Key:     UXTOSXA

Duration:     90 day

Notes:     Data ONTAP 8.1 minimum requirement.

xxx-netapp03> license add UXTOSXA

invalid platform -- insight_balance not licensed

xxx-netapp04> license add UXTOSXA

invalid platform -- insight_balance not licensed

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stphane
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Hi,

Hopefully someone can help here because I'm encountering the same issue.

Our evals keys do not work on V-series 😞

thanks for assistance,

Stéphane

sperber
6,828 Views

Same issue here. Is this tracked as Burt ?

plauterb
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With the recent strategy change announced in May, OnCommand Balance only supports NetApp FAS storage. NetApp V-series in no longer supported; this currently requires monitoring the third-party array behind the V-series. This is no longer possible, as we are EOA the Balance capacity license. Existing V-series customers are supported, but you cannot monitor V-series for new deployments.

It is on the Balance roadmap to support V-series without requiring monitoring the third party array behind it, in a future release.

BMORYRTOGO
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This will probably preclude our purchasing the product. Is there any estimation of how long before the V-Series are supported again?

It seems odd that an entire controller is deemed an "Invalid platform" because of one (optional) feature. Our V-Series have an equal or greater amount of native storage vs backend storage. It would be more useful for Balance to exclude non-native storage instead of the entire controller. Half of our environment is V-Series.

snate
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I have encountered the same problem and have created a case.   Did you ever receive any clarification or official response  on this?

Output from a v3270 ONTAP 8.1.3p2 no 3rd party disks, only using as a FAS

"

naXXXXXXXXX> license add uxtosxa
invalid platform -- insight_balance not licensed

"

BMORYRTOGO
6,828 Views

I was taking Peter's post as "official" as I believe Peter is involved in product development. He indicated V-Series support was planned for future release.

I have not heard anything further regarding planned release dates.

If anyone does hear anything or has more information, it would be greatly appreciated if this post was updated.

snate
6,828 Views

I will update the post to clarify when they respond back to the case. 

The compatibility matrix does show support for v-series and Balance 4.1.1.1.

snate
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I never managed to get any eval key working for the v-series.  When I received the customers full key it worked fine.  I did not get at response back from support yet but I believe that the eval key does not work for v-series and it is a oversight or just not documented.  If I receive a response from support that has more info I will post.

jweihs
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Hello Mike

At the risk of being dated - here is an eval key for Balance for the following v-series systems:

7-Mode:

30 days: COAFQHN

60 days: KCATQHN

90 days: SQZGRHN

cDOT:

pending

cabibbom
5,541 Views

Wonderful!!!!

Thanks!

Mike Cabibbo

Enterprise Systems Engineer

NetApp

727.492.6550 Mobile Phone

cabibbom@netapp.com<mailto:cabibbom@netapp.com>

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