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Capacity Pool licence (ONTAP Select)

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Unit
TB of raw capacity in a shared pool
Aliases
Capacity Pools
Definition
ONTAP Select documentation: under Capacity Pools "You must purchase a license for each shared Capacity Pool"; each licence is locked to a License Manager instance within a Deploy utility, and the capacity is the total allowable size of the data aggregates.
Counting rules
Allocated in 1 TB increments. Capacity is valid only for a set time (renewal required). Nodes lease capacity for local data aggregates from the shared pool; the pool must cover all nodes in the cluster. Not available when upgrading an evaluation cluster.
Floors / minimums
Minimum 2 TB per pool.
Applies to products
  • ONTAP Select
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