Product licenses

Learn about the product licenses that are available for IBM Spectrum Control. Current® licenses are IBM Spectrum Control and IBM Spectrum Control Select Edition. The IBM Spectrum Control Advanced Edition license is still applied, if you owned it in a previous release.

IBM Spectrum Control offers two licenses based on the type of metric that you use:

  • The IBM Spectrum Control license is based on the total number of storage capacity units (SCUs) that are required so that all of your capacity is licensed for all of your storage systems. This license applies if you currently have the IBM Spectrum Control or IBM® Virtual Storage Center license.
  • The IBM Spectrum Control Select Edition license (and the IBM Virtual Storage Center for Storwize® license) is based on the total number of licenses that you need for your storage systems that use enclosures.
Note: Only one difference exists between the IBM Spectrum Control and IBM Spectrum Control Select Edition licenses: the license metric (SCUs versus enclosures). The features are otherwise identical in both solutions. To view the features, see Product overview.

To view a complete list of devices that can be used with IBM Spectrum Control, go to https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/388393.

IBM Storage Insights for IBM Spectrum Control: IBM Storage Insights for IBM Spectrum Control is an IBM Cloud® service that can help you predict and prevent storage problems before they impact your business. It is complementary to IBM Spectrum Control and is available at no additional cost if you have an active license with a current subscription and support agreement for IBM Virtual Storage Center, IBM Spectrum® Storage Suite, or any edition of IBM Spectrum Control.

For more information and to view a list of features in the service, see IBM Storage Insights for IBM Spectrum Control.

Determining which licenses are needed for your monitored storage

Watch two short videos about how to view the capacity of the storage systems that IBM Spectrum Control monitors in your environment. Then, check the records of the licenses that you purchased to determine how much additional storage can be monitored before you're no longer covered.