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Re-installing the VLS Licenses, Warm Failover, To re-install the VLS licenses from Command View TL

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1. Set the network settings so you can open a Command View VLS session. See Setting the Network Settings. 2. Rebuild the virtual library and virtual drive configurations and re-enter your other configuration settings, such as the notification alert settings. See Configuration, Management, and Monitoring. NOTE: If the node system board was ever changed and the virtual library configuration and network settings were not saved to a configuration file, the persistent VLS serial number and Fibre Channel port WWPNs are lost and cannot be recovered. The VLS firmware will automatically generate a new VLS serial number and new Fibre Channel port WWPNs based on the node system board's MAC address. If this occurs, any capacity licenses installed on the VLS will no longer work, as they only work with the VLS serial number for which they were issued. You can obtain new capacity licenses from HP technical support using the new VLS serial number. You will also need to reconfigure your SAN to reflect the new Fibre Channel port WWPNs. Re-installing the VLS Licenses If one or more capacity bundles (or existing disk arrays), deduplication licenses, and/or replication licenses were added to the VLS, you must re-install the VLS licenses. To re-install the VLS licenses from Command View VLS (HP recommended method): 1. Locate the emails containing the license keys. Your VLS license keys were emailed to you when you originally requested them. If you no longer have these emails, contact HP technical support to obtain new license keys. 2. Log into Command View VLS. 3. Follow the Installing Additional Licenses procedure beginning with Step 9. To re-install the VLS licenses from Command View TL: 1. Locate the emails containing the license keys. Your VLS license keys were emailed to you when you originally requested them. If you no longer have these emails, contact HP technical support to obtain new license keys. 2. Log into Command View TL. 3. Delete the VLS licenses in Command View TL. 4. Ignore the message saying to reboot the device. 5. Re-install the VLS license keys. See the HP OpenView Command View for TL User Guide. Warm Failover After any configuration or license change, the VLS automatically saves (within one hour) the updated configuration and licenses to a hidden virtual cartridge stored on the back-end disk arrays. When you replace the node or node hard drives, the VLS uses this information to automatically restore the system to a configuration identical to what it had before. This automated process eliminates the need to manually restore the configuration. HP StorageWorks 303

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1.
Set the network settings so you can open a Command View VLS session. See
Setting the Network
Settings
.
2.
Rebuild the virtual library and virtual drive configurations and re-enter your other configuration
settings, such as the notification alert settings. See
Configuration
,
Management
, and
Monitoring
.
NOTE:
If the node system board was ever changed and the virtual library configuration and network settings
were not saved to a configuration file, the persistent VLS serial number and Fibre Channel port
WWPNs are lost and cannot be recovered. The VLS firmware will automatically generate a new VLS
serial number and new Fibre Channel port WWPNs based on the node system board's MAC address.
If this occurs, any capacity licenses installed on the VLS will no longer work, as they only work with
the VLS serial number for which they were issued. You can obtain new capacity licenses from HP
technical support using the new VLS serial number. You will also need to reconfigure your SAN to
reflect the new Fibre Channel port WWPNs.
Re-installing the VLS Licenses
If one or more capacity bundles (or existing disk arrays), deduplication licenses, and/or replication
licenses were added to the VLS, you must re-install the VLS licenses.
To re-install the VLS licenses from Command View VLS (HP recommended method):
1.
Locate the emails containing the license keys.
Your VLS license keys were emailed to you when you originally requested them. If you no longer
have these emails, contact HP technical support to obtain new license keys.
2.
Log into Command View VLS.
3.
Follow the
Installing Additional Licenses
procedure beginning with
Step 9
.
To re-install the VLS licenses from Command View TL:
1.
Locate the emails containing the license keys.
Your VLS license keys were emailed to you when you originally requested them. If you no longer
have these emails, contact HP technical support to obtain new license keys.
2.
Log into Command View TL.
3.
Delete the VLS licenses in Command View TL.
4.
Ignore the message saying to reboot the device.
5.
Re-install the VLS license keys. See the
HP OpenView Command View for TL User Guide
.
Warm Failover
After any configuration or license change, the VLS automatically saves (within one hour) the updated
configuration and licenses to a hidden virtual cartridge stored on the back-end disk arrays. When
you replace the node or node hard drives, the VLS uses this information to automatically restore the
system to a configuration identical to what it had before. This automated process eliminates the need
to manually restore the configuration.
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