Hi jimboefx.
You can have as much storage on your Windows machine as you like, but the license pertains to what is being accessed by DataCore itself.
If you have 5 1TB drives in RAID5, providing roughly 4TB of space, then you would have approximately 3814GB of storage. You can provide that to DataCore as either a single LUN or if you want to use static volumes, you can split that up and have several volumes.
I typically have 2 extra drives for the OS and AIM Buffer Storage over and above the licenseable storage amount in my configurations.
Also, remember that you can 'serve up' MUCH more than the 4TB of your license to the application servers - especially now with the 1PB drives that are presented.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Peter
jimboefx Wrote:I need to understand the capacity licensing. Hopefully you can help.
If I have a 4TB license - does the 4TB calculation come from the disks assigned to NMV pools? Is the calculation based on the disk size as seen by windows (as opposed to the raw disk used to create a raided volume)
Does that mean 4TB could be:
-4TB of raided volumes (e.g. 4 1TB volumes created by the raid card)
-4TB of jbod
-4TB of a mixture of raided volumes and jbod
Furthermore can I have more volumes available to windows (but not assigned to any datacore pool) without causing any error from datacore on exceeding license limits?
Feedback appreciated
