Wisdom Pack Licenses
Each Wisdom Pack can be purchased as a Subscription License for the Enterprise Edition or Virtual Editions of IPM. Evaluation Licenses are also available for Wisdom Packs, so you can assess the value of any Wisdom Pack for your environment.
In addition to the Base License components, each Wisdom Pack includes specific components, required for particular environments. Following are the available Wisdom Packs, which can be implemented individually or in combination, depending on your needs:
Wisdom Pack | Description | Supports1,2 | Comments |
Operating System | Each (1) license can be applied to any included OS. Each count of the license also includes 5 NetFlow endpoints. |
| Example: If you purchase 1,000 Operating System Wisdom Packs, then you also receive licenses for 5,000 NetFlow endpoints, even if you do not purchase any IP Network Wisdom Packs. |
Virtualization | Each (1) license can be applied to 1 included hypervisor or specialized OS. Each count of the license also includes 50 NetFlow endpoints. |
| Hyper-V, vSphere, and PowerVM are all licensed by host (specialized OS). |
Enterprise Storage | Each (1) license enables monitoring of 1 controller. Depending on the array type, the controller can be managing N number of engines or nodes (usually 2 or 4). The ratio in the Supports column is read as “1 license to N engines / nodes”. |
| Example: To monitor 1000 Isilon nodes and 500 SVC nodes, you need 500 counts of the Enterprise Storage Wisdom Pack, in which 250 would be consumed to monitor 1000 Isilon nodes (250 controllers) and 250 consumed to monitor 500 SVC nodes (250 controllers). |
Software-defined Storage | Each (1) license enables monitoring of 1 SDS node |
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SAN Switch | Each (1) license enables monitoring of 1 SAN switch port. |
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Wiredata | Each (1) license includes 4 Link Credits, where each count of each type of Link consumes a certain number of Link Credits. | Credits consumed per count of each link type:
| Hardware probes decrement the license count based on types of ports on the probes (current link speed). If the current speed on the link changes, the counts are automatically recalculated. Cisco STS decrements the count based on number of Cisco STS-enabled ports used. With 1 Wire Data Wisdom Pack, some examples of what you can monitor include: 16 x 4GFC Links, OR 8 x 10GE Links, OR 8 x 8GFC Links, OR 4 x 16GFC Links, OR 16 Cisco STS Links |
FC32 Wiredata | Each (1) license includes 4 Link Credits. | 1 credit consumed per link. | Hardware probes decrement the license count based on types of ports on the probes (current link speed). If the current speed on the link changes, the counts are automatically recalculated. One (1) FC32 Wiredata Wisdom Pack can monitor 4 x 32GFC Links Note: FC32 Wiredata Wisdom Pack licenses are currently not compatible with line speed rates other than 32G |
IP Networks | Each (1) license enables monitoring of 1 NetFlow endpoint. | NetFlow Integration (1 endpoint) |
1 - A single quantity of a Wisdom Pack that includes multiple integration types cannot be allocated to multiple IPM servers. For example, if you have a Virtualization Wisdom Pack, you cannot allocate a Hyper-V integration on server A and allocate the NetFlow Integration on server B.
2 - Additional supported items can be added between releases. Check with Virtana for the latest support information.
3 - Each unique monitored IP address consumes 1 count of NetFlow license, whether it is the source or destination IP at the time it was first discovered. Multicast/broadcast IP addresses do not consume NetFlow licenses.
Licensing information for the following Integrations can be found in their respective User Guides:
InfiniBox
Kubernetes
KVM
Linux
NetApp
Nexus
PowerStore
Pure
Solaris
UCS
Unity
VSP
Windows
XtremIO