The "useclonedev" feature requires Enterprise license and is not enabled with the Standard license

An Enterprise license is necessary to enable the "useclonedev" feature and is not enabled with the Standard license.

The following sequence of commands illustrate the requirement for an Enterprise license to enable "useclonedev"

# vxdctl license
No licensed features are available

# /sbin/vxlicinst

Veritas License Manager vxlicinst utility version 3.02.16.0
Copyright (C) 1996-2006 Veritas Corporation. All rights reserved.

Enter your license key : 3EPH-IPCC-DPJP-2B4K-7KXP-PO8P

Number of days left for Demo = 60

License key successfully installed for VERITAS Storage Foundation Standard
License key successfully installed for VERITAS Volume Manager
License key successfully installed for VERITAS File System

Available features enabled with basic Standard license is as follows:

# vxdctl  license
All features are available:
Mirroring
Root Mirroring
Concatenation
Disk-spanning
Striping
RAID-5
VxSmartSync
DMP (multipath enabled)
CDS
Dynamic LUN Expansion
Hardware assisted copy

# vxdg deport ndg

Note: The error from this command indicates this feature is not enabled/available:

# vxdg -o useclonedev=on import ndg
VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-10978 Disk group ndg: import failed:
License has expired or is not available for operation

# /sbin/vxlicinst

Veritas License Manager vxlicinst utility version 3.02.16.0
Copyright (C) 1996-2006 Veritas Corporation. All rights reserved.

Enter your license key : IRPE-9XPI-N3K2-T77G-LL4K-GTRC

Number of days left for Demo = 60

License key successfully installed for VERITAS Storage Foundation Enterprise
License key successfully installed for VERITAS Volume Manager
License key successfully installed for VERITAS File System

 

Reread the new license file
 

# vxdctl license init

As a result of applying the Enterprise License key, 4 new features (*) have been added and the feature "Array Snapshot Integration Feature" supports the "useclonedev"

# vxdctl license
All features are available:
Mirroring
Root Mirroring
Concatenation
Disk-spanning
Striping
RAID-5
VxSmartSync
Array Snapshot Integration Feature    *
FastResync  *
DGSJ *
Site Awareness *
DMP (multipath enabled)
CDS
Dynamic LUN Expansion
Hardware assisted copy

# vxdg -o useclonedev=on import ndg