Licensing and downloading IBM Spectrum Virtualize software

To use this software, you need to obtain a trust-based license and then download the installable software package.

Procedure

  1. Go to the IBM® Passport Advantage® website to obtain a trust-based license for IBM Spectrum Virtualize™.
  2. On the website, follow the directions to enter your IBM customer number (ICN) and the maximum number of terabytes of virtual storage to provision with your systems.
  3. Download the installable software package from the same IBM Passport Advantage website.

What to do next

Differential licensing
Differential licensing is the term used to refer to the measurement of virtualization and compression licenses, where different types of storage are charged at different rates. Differential licensing uses a storage capacity unit (SCU)-based license scheme for virtualization and compression licenses. For each SCU, a client is entitled to manage different amounts of usable capacity based on a storage category classification. Table 1 identifies the storage categories and SCU ratios for each category.
Table 1. Storage capacity unit categories and ratios
Storage category Included storage types SCU ratio
1 Flash and solid-state drives (SSDs) 1 SCU equates to 1.00 TB usable of Category 1 storage
2 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives and Fibre Channel drives 1 SCU equates to 1.18 TB usable of Category 2 storage
3 Nearline SAS (NL-SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) drives 1 SCU equates to 4.00 TB usable of Category 3 storage
Table 2 provides an example of how SCU licensing might work based on category types.
Table 2. Example of SCU usage
Storage category TB usable SCU ratio Total SCUs
1 42 1 42
2 400® 1.18 339
3 800 4 200
Totals 1242   581
Parent topic: Installing