how to check which licnese is Installed in Command View EVA

[Khurram Shahzad]

Hi we have an EVA but i need to check which license has been installed i.e. 1 TB LTU or Unlimited LTU. How can we check it from command view EVA

[Torsten.]

IIRC it depends on the cv version. Select the eva and you will see a licence tab at the top.

[Khurram Shahzad]

Command view version 6 it displays nothing any other way to find out which license is installed.

[Uwe Zessin · Accepted solution]

CV-EVA V6 and previous versions use a 'paper license' and simply did not have an electronic key. You do need to find the delivery receipt from when you received the license.

[Khurram Shahzad]

What about the new versions of CV EVA. IF electronic key has already been entered how can we check which license type is it.

[Uwe Zessin]

- login to CV-EVA
- 'click' the EVA in the left tree and you will see the 'Initialized Storage System Properties' page
- below the buttons, there is a |Licensing| tab

- click this tab and you will get a summary of all licensed features (CV, BC, CA) and their licensed/used capacity.
Below that you will the a list of all license keys, whether they are permanent or temporary and when they will expire.

If you want to upgrade CV-EVA, you get a 60-day 'instant-on' (evaluation license). But: unless there is an urgent need to upgrade I strongly recommend that one gets hold of the keys first. There is always a chance that 'something goes wrong' and in the end you might end up with a system you cannot manage because the 'instant-on' license has expired.

I do not make fun! You cannot even add a failed disk to a disk group. We had this problem at one customer site when somebody else did upgrade to CV-EVA V7 and then said 'good bye'. This version offered 180 days of 'free management', but because several things, well, 'went wrong', he ended up with an unmanageable system.

[Khurram Shahzad]

Thanks for the the good information so lets talk about the CV EVA 6 that is in our case the receipts have been misplaced by the customer and need to find out the type of license installed.

Is there any other way.

[Uwe Zessin]

The problem is that this information is not stored anywhere on the EVA or management server unless somebody has written it down.

On the other hand: somebody must have delivered the system - either a partner of HP (maybe via a distributor) or HP itself.
It is a good idea to start asking there.

Even if you cannot get the product number you might get another 'magic thing' called a "HP ordernumber". With this information somebody could look up the details.