Apply IBM Storage Scale license

IBM Storage Scale requires a licensing designation before you can use it.

All IBM Storage Scale nodes require a license designation before they can be used. The FPO feature introduced a dedicated PFS license class fpo. In the IBM Storage Scale FPO cluster, all quorum and manager nodes require a server license. Based on the sample environment, node11, node21, and node31 require a server license. The other nodes require an fpo license.

 mmchlicense server --accept -N node11,node21,node31 

 mmchlicense fpo --accept -N node12,node13,node14,node15,node16,node22,node23,node24,node25,node26,
node32,node33,node34,node35,node36

Use the mmlslicense -L command to view license information for the cluster.

Nodes with no disks in the file system are called as diskless nodes. Run the mmchlicense client --accept -N command to accept the client license for disks that have no disks in the IBM Storage Scale file system.

Start the IBM Storage Scale cluster to verify whether it starts successfully. Use the mmstartup –a command to start the IBM Storage Scale cluster and the mmgetstate –a command to view the state of the IBM Storage Scale cluster.