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Hussain.abedin
Nutanix Employee
Hussain.abedinNutanix Employee
posted in NCM/NCI/NUS licensing (New Licensing)
Nutanix License Enforcement - Key Points

Nutanix has introduced product license enforcement to prevent unauthorized use of Nutanix Software. Below are the main key points regarding the prerequisites and policies: Enforcement will kick-in on a licensed cluster once the cluster is on the below SW releases or later.AOS 6.7.1 PC 2023.4 NCC 4.6.6Enforcement will be implemented in two levels:Day 0 of cluster expiration AOS/NCI: No cluster expansion / No storage creation or update Prism/NCM: Turn off Ops (UI only; except analysis and Dashboard) No Support Day 60 past cluster expiration No upgrades (including security patches) No cluster UI management or monitoring Disable access to NCM features Enforcement is disabled by default: Upgrading to an AOS/PC version will not enable the enforcement.Licensing action is required to enable enforcement: Licensing action is applying or updating licenses of a cluster. Each time a licensing action is executed, the enforcement policy will be updated on the cluster in conjunction with applied

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Hussain.abedin
Nutanix Employee
3 months ago
Hussain.abedin
Nutanix Employee
Hussain.abedinNutanix Employee
posted in AOS/Prism licensing (Legacy Licensing)
License Conversion Requirements

In order to convert your legacy old licenses (AOS/Prism) to the new cloud platform (NCI/NCM/NUS) licenses, you will need have the following requirements:For Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), minimum versions are: AOS 6.0.1.7 NCC 4.3.0 pc.2021.9 For Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Self-Service, minimum version is pc.2023.3. For Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS), minimum versions are: AOS 6.1.1 NCC 4.5.0 pc.2022.4 For NCI Edge, minimum versions are: AOS 6.7 and pc.2023.3. Dark site clusters minimum versions are: AOS 6.1.1 NCC 4.6.2 pc.2022.4  The cluster must be fully licensed before conversion, or you must have enough available licenses to fully convert the cluster (combination of old and new licenses). If two licenses merge into one, the expiration date must be the same. For example, AOS + Flow or Prism + Calm. All existing Prism licenses in a Prism Central instance must be converted to NCM. You must apply all Flow and Encryption licenses. Unapplied Flow and Encryption licenses are

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Hussain.abedin
Nutanix Employee
3 months ago
Hussain.abedin
Nutanix Employee
Hussain.abedinNutanix Employee
posted in AOS/Prism licensing (Legacy Licensing)
License Conversion Limitation

You will not be able to convert the following licenses to our new Nutanix Cloud Platform LicensingEPA (Enterprise Purchase Agreement) LOD (Life of Device) Non-renewable NTE (Not To Exceed) One-time use POC (Proof of Concept) SWO (software only) perpetualFollowing scenarios will not allow a conversion operation:A license upgrade quote is in flight The license is due for renewal in the next 90 days A renewal opportunity is in the advanced stage Role-based access control (RBAC) accounts and RBAC-based users cannot perform conversions in the following scenarios.Capacity cores are in one account and flash storage capacity is in another account An AOS Ultimate license is in one account and a Flow license is in another account An Objects license is in one account and a Files license is in another account A Prism Pro license is in one account and a Calm Cores license is in another account A VDI Pro license is in one account and an Encryption license is in another account A VDI Pro license is i

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Hussain.abedin
Nutanix Employee
3 months ago
Antonio.Bahena
Nutanix Employee
Antonio.BahenaNutanix Employee
posted in Features and Tiers
Enabling Ultimate Tier Trial

Not seeing the Ultimate 90-day trial on Prism Central? No problem!When registering our cluster from Prism Element with Prism Central you will have the opportunity to try our highest tier of licenses and features for 90 days. If this is the first time you are registering the cluster with Prism Central and don’t see the option we can enable the features by following these simple steps.If you have Seamless licensing enabled in your Prism Central then…Please log on to PCVM, Load the Licensing page under the Admin Center Click on Applied Licenses  Select Prism, and click on More Actions Select Show Features on the top right corner of the features page, you will find a button to enable Prism Ultimate Trial.If you don’t have seamless licensing…Log in to the Prism Central Web Console. Select the Gear icon and select Licensing. The license type displayed is Prism Ultimate Trial.  Click on the "View & Manage Features" link next to the word Prism. Toggle the "Enable Ultimate Trial" button to

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Antonio.Bahena
Nutanix Employee
3 months ago
Hussain.abedin
Nutanix Employee
Hussain.abedinNutanix Employee
posted in Features and Tiers
License Feature violation NCC check/alert

License Feature Violation is triggered when a feature running on the cluster doesn’t have the proper tier of License. From the CVM you can get the details of the allowed license features and check which one is showing as false:nutanix@cvm:~$ ncli license get-allowances Feature : dr_compression Feature Display Name : Remote Site Compression Allowance Type : BOOLEAN Allowance : true Feature : self_encrypting_drives_password_enabled Feature Display Name : Self Encrypting Drives Password Allowance Type : BOOLEAN Allowance : false <<<--------- If you do not want to use the feature any more, you can disable the feature and run NCC check to resolve the alert. if you wish to continue using the feature please check the Software Tier table and apply/purchase the proper licenses. AOS/Prism Software Tier Nutanix Cloud Platform Software Tier

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Hussain.abedin
Nutanix Employee
3 months ago
Jennifer Cruz
Nutanix Employee
Jennifer CruzNutanix Employee
posted in Features and Tiers
Legacy Software Options and Nutanix Cloud Platform Software Options features and tiers

Below are two documents referencing the features and tiers of Legacy Software and Nutanix Cloud Platform Software options. Legacy Software Options Nutanix Cloud Platform Software Options

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Jennifer Cruz
Nutanix Employee
4 months ago

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