Nexus 1000v 4.2(1)SV2(2.1a) - License Question

[David Undernehr]

I have two VSM's (vm's) running in HA pair on two blade servers in same HP chassis. In the beginning I was running the 1000v environment using the Eval licensing but now I have installed the Cisco provided license files.

My question is this: When I invoke the command "show license usage NEXUS1000V_LAN_SERVICES_PKG" I see the 6 installed Licenses, however, I also see that the "Installed Licenses in Use equals 0.  Should I see Installed Licenses in Use equal 2?

vdivc01-n1kv# show license usage NEXUS1000V_LAN_SERVICES_PKG

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Feature Usage Info

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      Installed Licenses : 6

    Default Eval Licenses : 0

   Max Overdraft Licenses : 16

Installed Licenses in Use : 0

Overdraft Licenses in Use : 0

  Default Eval Lic in Use : 0

   Default Eval days left : 0

       Licenses Available : 22

          Shortest Expiry : Never

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vdivc01-n1kv# show mod vem license-info

Licenses are Sticky

Mod   Socket Count   License Usage Count   License Version   License Status

---   ------------   -------------------   ---------------   --------------

3     2              -                     -                 licensed

4     2              -                     -                licensed

vdivc01-n1kv# sho license brie

N1KVFEAT201312300740270040.lic

N1KVFEAT201312300741200540.lic

N1KVFEAT201312300742010570.lic

N1KVFEAT201312300742330820.lic

N1KVFEAT201312300743060900.lic

N1KVFEAT201312300743430650.lic

Any help is very appreciated!

David

[mwronkow · Accepted solution]

The installed licenses are used for Advanced Edition.  I suspect your switch is still in Essential Edition mode since there isn't a Count or License Version for those modules.  Check output of sh switch edition.

Example:

SV2# sh switch edition

Switch Edition: Advanced  <------

Advanced Features

Feature Name    Feature State  

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cts             disabled       

dhcp-snooping   disabled       

vxlan-gateway   enabled        

Licenses Available: 22

Licenses In Use: 10    <---------------

License Expiry Date:

[David Undernehr]

That is exactly what it was.

I switched it from Essential to Advanced and now I see exactly what I was expecting to see.

vdivc01-n1kv# show license usage NEXUS1000V_LAN_SERVICES_PKG

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Feature Usage Info

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       Installed Licenses : 6

    Default Eval Licenses : 0

   Max Overdraft Licenses : 16

Installed Licenses in Use : 4

Overdraft Licenses in Use : 0

  Default Eval Lic in Use : 0

   Default Eval days left : 0

       Licenses Available : 18

          Shortest Expiry : Never

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Application

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VEM 3 - Socket 1

VEM 3 - Socket 2

VEM 4 - Socket 1

VEM 4 - Socket 2

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Thank you Matthew for the help!