Viewing and updating license settings by using the CLI

You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to view and update your license settings.

Your system provides two license options: Physical Disk Licensing and Capacity Licensing. To view and update your system license settings:

The system provides enclosure licensing. You can view and update your license settings:

  1. Issue the lslicense CLI command to view the current license settings for the clustered system (system).
  2. Issue the chlicense CLI command to change the licensed settings of the system.
    Attention:
    • License settings are entered when the system is first created; do not update the settings unless you change your license.
    • To select Capacity Licensing, run the chlicense command with one or more of the -flash, -remote, and -virtualization parameters. If the physical disks value is nonzero, these parameters cannot be set.