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Capacity licence (raw or provisioned)

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Unit
Storage capacity or other usage measure
Aliases
Capacity-based license
Definition
EULA s.3: "Capacity" licences are Controller-based or Standalone licences "granted for a specified amount of storage capacity or usage, which may be measured as “raw” or “provisioned” storage capacity, number of hosts, or other measure of usage as prescribed by NetApp."
Counting rules
The measure (raw, provisioned, hosts) is set by the order and Documentation. Use in excess of capacity limits breaches the licence restrictions.
Floors / minimums
Set per product (for example FabricPool tiering, ONTAP Select, Cloud Volumes ONTAP).
Applies to products
  • FabricPool tiering to third-party object storage
  • ONTAP Select
  • Cloud Volumes ONTAP
  • Other capacity-licensed NetApp software
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