David,
        As I understand it (and how we have it set up here), you do not
need extra licenses if the drives are only going to have one path
defined. 

Regards
Bob
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>From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
>[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Browning, David
>Sent: 05 December 2006 20:55
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: [Networker] DDS - drive sharing
>
>I have a question about DDS licensing.  We are getting ready 
>to upgrade our Library with extra drives so that we can start cloning. 
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>Currently we have a DDS license for each drive in the machine, 
>but that's not necessary for the drives that we are going to 
>use for cloning. 
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>Is there going to be in issue if we want to have our Storage 
>Nodes use just 8 of 12 drives (we have 4 storage nodes and 8 
>DDS licenses for 8
>drives)?   Does it have to be all drives in a library? 
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>Just curious if I'm going to run into any issues - I'd hate to 
>buy licenses, as we don't need them for all 12 drives. 
>
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>
>David M. Browning Jr.
>
>LSUHSC Enterprise Network Operations/Help Desk
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