Brocade Fabric OS v6.4.3f Release Notes v1.0

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 Brocade Extended Fabrics — Provides greater than 10km of switched fabric connectivity at full
bandwidth over long distances (depending on platform this can be up to 3000km).
 Brocade ISL Trunking — Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one logical link for
enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. Also includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on
those products that support Access Gateway deployment.
 Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring — Enables performance monitoring of networked storage
resources. This license includes the TopTalkers feature.
 High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC (formerly known as “FC-IP Services”) (For the FR4-18i blade
and Brocade 7500) — This license key also includes the FC-FastWrite feature and IPsec capabilities.
 Brocade Accelerator for FICON – This license enables unique FICON emulation support for IBM’s
Global Mirror (formerly XRC) application (including Hitachi Data Systems HXRC and EMC’s XRC) as well
as Tape Pipelining for all FICON tape and virtual tape systems to significantly improve XRC and tape
backup/recovery performance over virtually unlimited distance for 7500, upgraded 7500E and FR4-
18i.
 Brocade Fabric Watch — Monitors mission-critical switch operations. Fabric Watch also includes Port
Fencing capabilities.
 FICON Management Server — Also known as “CUP” (Control Unit Port), enables host-control of
switches in Mainframe environments.
 ICL 16-link, or Inter Chassis Links – This license provides dedicated high-bandwidth links between two
Brocade DCX chassis, without consuming valuable front-end 8Gb ports. Each chassis must have the
16-link ICL license installed in order to enable the full 16-link ICL connections. (Available on the DCX
only, previously known as simply the “ICL License” for DCX.)
 ICL 8-Link, or Inter Chassis Links – This license activates all eight links on ICL ports on a DCX-4S
chassis or half of the ICL bandwidth for each ICL port on the DCX platform by enabling only eight links
out of the sixteen links available. This allows users to purchase half the bandwidth of DCX ICL ports
initially and upgrade with an additional 8-link license to utilize the full ICL bandwidth at a later time.
This license is also useful for environments that wish to create ICL connections between a DCX and a
DCX-4S, the latter of which cannot support more than 8 links on an ICL port. Available on the DCX-4S
and DCX platforms only (This license replaces the original ICL license for the DCX-4S).
 Enhanced Group Management — This license, available only on the DCX, DCX-4S and other 8G
platforms, enables full management of the device in a datacenter fabric with deeper element
management functionality and greater management task aggregation throughout the environment.
This license is used in conjunction with Brocade’s Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) application
software.
 Adaptive Networking — Adaptive Networking provides a rich framework of capability allowing a user to
ensure high priority connections obtain the network resources necessary for optimum performance,
even in congested environments. The QoS SID/DID Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting features
are the first components of this license, and are fully available on all 8G platforms.
 Integrated Routing — This license allows ports in a DCX, DCX-4S, 5300, 5100, VA-40FC (in switch
mode), 7800 or Brocade Encryption Switch to be configured as EX_Ports or VEX_Ports supporting
Fibre Channel Routing. This eliminates the need to add an FR4-18i blade or use the 7500 for FCR
purposes, and also provides double the bandwidth for each FCR connection (when connected to
another 8G-capable port).
 7500E Upgrade (For the Brocade 7500E only) — This license allows customers to upgrade a 4-port (2
FC ports and 2 GE ports) 7500E base to a full 18-port (16 FC ports and 2 GE ports) 7500
configuration and feature capability. The upgraded 7500E includes the complete High Performance
Extension license feature set.
 Encryption Performance Upgrade — This license provides additional encryption processing power. For
the Brocade Encryption Switch or a DCX/DCX-4S, the Encryption Performance License can be installed