Move or extract CIFS and NFS licens to another cluster using cli

Johan_K — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:49:36 GMT

Hi,

I used to have one cluster. NetappC1

2 newer nodes and 2 older ones in the cluster.

I removed the 2 older nodes from NetappC1

And created a new cluster NetappC2 with the older nodes.

So now i have 2 clusters (NetappC1 and NetappC2), NetappC1 with the 2 newer nodes and NetappC2 with the 2 older nodes.

Problem is now that I dont have the licenses for NetappC2,.

The Nodes are decommissioned and not in autosupport. So i cant find them.

Is there a way to extract the licenses from NetappC1?

I can see that there are still licenses on NetappC1 committed to the two nodes that are not in the cluster anymore.

::> system license show -serial-number 1-81-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx1

::> system license show -serial-number 1-81-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx2

Showing NFS, CIFS,iSCSI,FCP

But how do i move the licens to NetappC2?

Re: Move or extract CIFS and NFS licens to another cluster using cli

SpindleNinja — Wed, 03 May 2023 13:01:42 GMT

There's not really a way to "extract them". I'm also pretty sure those are node/serial locked as well. If you're head swapping, the new serials should be included with the order.

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