• 30 day evaluation and extension — The license expires after 30 days that can be extended for 30 days.
Evaluation licenses are duration-based, and the timer runs when power is applied to the system.
• Perpetual — The license is bound to the service tag and is permanent.
Acquiring Licenses
Use any of the following methods to acquire the licenses:
• E-mail — License is attached to an e-mail that is sent after requesting it from the technical support
center.
• Self-service portal — A link to the Self-Service Portal is available from CMC. Click this link to open the
licensing Self-Service Portal on the internet from where you can purchase licenses. For more
information, see the online help for the self-service portal page.
• Point-of-sale — License is acquired while placing the order for a system.
License Operations
Before you perform the license management tasks, make sure to acquire the licenses. For more
information, see the Overview and Feature Guide available at support.dell.com.
NOTE: If you have purchased a system with all the licenses pre-installed, then license management
is not required.
You can perform the following licensing operations using CMC, RACADM, and WS-MAN for one-to-
one license management, and Dell License Manager for one-to-many license management:
• View — View the current license information.
• Import — After acquiring the license, store the license in a local storage and import it into CMC using
one of the supported interfaces. The license is imported if it passes the validation checks.
NOTE: For a few features, a CMC restart may be required to enable the features.
• Export — Export the installed license into an external storage device back up or to reinstall it after a
service part is replaced. The file name and format of the exported license is <EntitlementID>.xml
• Delete — Delete the license that is assigned to a component if the component is missing. After the
license is deleted, it is not stored in CMC and the base product functions are enabled.
• Replace — Replace the license to extend an evaluation license, change a license type such as an
evaluation license with a purchased license, or extend an expired license.
• An evaluation license may be replaced with an upgraded evaluation license or with a purchased
license.
• A purchased license may be replaced with an updated license or with an upgraded license. For more
information about license, click Dell Software License Management Portal .
• Learn More — Learn more about an installed license, or the licenses available for a component
installed in the server.
NOTE: For the Learn More option to display the correct page, make sure that *.dell.com is added
to the list of Trusted Sites in the Security Settings. For more information, see the Internet
Explorer help documentation.
License Component State or Condition and Available Operations
The following table provides the list of license operations available based on the license state or
condition.
Table 1. License Operations Based on State and Condition
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