Subject:
How do I determine what my capacity is for QuantaStor licensing.
Detail:
Our licensing is based on the Raw TB of the physical disk in the system used for data disks. This includes the capacity of the raw disk behind a raid controller that is integrated for management regardless of Hardware RAID level.
As an example a RAID5 of 24x 1TB disks and a RAID10 of 24x 1TB disks would both require a 24TB RAW capacity license even when on an LSI, Adaptec or other hardware RAID controller we support.
* We do not count disks configured as spares, cache or OS towards the capacity, only data disks.
* We use raw Gigabytes as that is what disk manufacturers use for reporting their advertised capacity and it makes it easiest to license in the same fashion.
* You will need to license for the capacity of the disk in GB times the number of disks you have configured that are storing data.
* We use gigabytes (GB) for our raw calculations but we also show Gibibytes (GiB) for usable capacity:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte
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