The license files are named pre_6.7 and post_6.7  and IIRC both are in a XML style. They are for sure tied to the ControllerID   "snXXXXX" and the post licenses also to the service tag of the chassis. But a series 40 is pre Dell and i cant believe that the get some kind of virtual STAG. I have my doubt that this cold standby or part replacement would work without the knowing on how to get disk "online" and into a managed state. The SC8000 come in late 2012 and i can remember because we was one of the first class to get the certification at Core Education based in holland. So your sc40 is more than 10 years old. Regards,Joerg
Hey all! We've got an old Dell Compellent Series 40 that's still providing SAN functionality for us, and it's been good. I think we'd like to move up to a more modern storage solution in some amount of time, but we're considering the financial position of our company and we might be sticking with this model for some time to come. All the same, we were thinking about picking up an old Series 40 on eBay or something as a cold spare, but we're not sure how part replacement or licensing would transfer from one to the other. Is this a viable solution for us to maintain our Compellent licensing and disk configuration? If not, how might we go about doing that?
Compellent cold spare, spare parts, and successful disk license and 
configuration transfer on a Series 40?