Capacity-based licensing

You can use capacity-based licensing to license IBM Spectrum Scale™ based on the storage capacity being managed in an IBM Spectrum Scale cluster.

The storage capacity to be licensed is the capacity in terabytes (TiB) under all NSDs in the IBM Spectrum Scale cluster. You can view the cluster capacity for licensing by selecting the About option from the menu that is available in the upper right corner of the management GUI.

Capacity-based licensing can be used only with IBM Spectrum Scale Data Management Edition. The Data Management Edition provides identical functionality as the Advanced Edition.