3032 Feature license limit exceeded.

Explanation

The amount of space that is licensed for a cluster feature is being exceeded.

The feature that is being exceeded might be:

  • Virtualization (event identifier 009172)
  • FlashCopy (event identifier 009173)
  • Remote Copy or policy-based replication (event identifier 009174)
  • Transparent cloud tiering (event identifier 087046)

The cluster continues to operate, but it might be violating the license conditions.

User response

  • Determine which feature license limit has been exceeded. This might be:
    • Virtualization (event identifier 009172)
    • FlashCopy (event identifier 009173)
    • Remote Copy or policy-based replication (event identifier 009174)
    • Transparent cloud tiering (event identifier 087046)
  • Use the lslicense command to view the current license settings.
  • Ensure that the feature capacity that is reported by the cluster has been set to match either the licensed size, or if the license applies to more than one cluster, to the portion of the license that is allocated to this cluster.
  • Decide whether to increase the feature capacity or to reduce the space that is being used by this feature.
  • To increase the feature capacity, contact your IBM sales representative and arrange an increased license capacity. Change the license settings for the cluster to set the new licensed capacity. Alternatively, if the license applies to more than one cluster modify how the licensed capacity is apportioned between the clusters. Update every cluster so that the sum of the license capacity for all of the clusters does not exceed the licensed capacity for the location.
  • To reduce the amount of disk space that is virtualized, delete some of the managed disks or image mode volumes. The used virtualization size is the sum of the capacities of all of the managed disks and image mode disks.
  • To reduce the FlashCopy capacity, delete some FlashCopy mappings. The used FlashCopy size is the sum of all of the volumes that are the source volume of a FlashCopy mapping.
  • To reduce the capacity that is used with Global and Metro Mirror, delete one or more Global Mirror or Metro Mirror relationships. The used Global and Metro Mirror size is the sum of the capacities of all of the volumes that are in a Metro Mirror or Global Mirror relationship; both master and auxiliary volumes are counted. To reduce the capacity used with policy-based replication, remove the replication policy from one or more volume groups.
  • To reduce the number of I/O groups that use Transparent cloud tiering, disable cloud snapshots for all cloud snapshot-enabled volumes from individual I/O groups until the total number of I/O groups that use transparent cloud tiering is below the license limit.
  • The error will automatically be fixed when the licensed capacity is greater than the capacity that is being used.

Possible Cause-FRUs or other:

  • None