HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2e Release Notes (5697-1816, March 2012) - includes all 6.3.2x versions

Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting features are the first components of this license and
are available on all 8Gb platforms.
• Integrated Routing license—Allows ports on a DC SAN Backbone Director, DC04 SAN Director,
1606 Extension SAN Switch, HP 8/80 SAN Switch, or HP 8/40 SAN Switch to be configured
as EX_Ports, supporting FCR. This eliminates the need to add a B-series Multiprotocol Router
Blade or to use the 400 MP Router for FCR purposes, it also provides double the bandwidth
for each FCR connection (when connected to another 8Gb-capable port).
• Encryption Performance Upgrade—This license provides additional encryption processing
power. The Encryption Performance License enables full encryption processing power on the
HP Encryption SAN Switch or on all HP DC Switch Encryption blades installed in the DC SAN
Backbone Director/DC04 SAN Director chassis.
• Server Application Optimization license (introduced with Fabric OS 6.2)—When deployed
with Brocade HBAs, optimizes overall application performance for physical servers and virtual
machines by extending virtual channels to the server infrastructure. Application-specific traffic
flows can be configured, prioritized, and optimized throughout the data center infrastructure.
This license is not supported on the HP 2408 FCoE Converged Network Switch.
• 1606 Extension SAN Switch Port Upgrade—This license allows a 1606 Extension SAN Switch
to enable 16 FC ports (instead of the base 4 ports) and 6 GbE ports (instead of the base 2
ports). This license is also required to enable additional FCIP tunnels and advanced capabilities,
such as tape read/write pipelining. A 1606 Extension SAN Switch must have the Port Upgrade
license installed to add FICON Management Server (CUP) or Advanced Accelerator for
FICON.
• Advanced Extension—This license enables two advanced extension features: FCIP Trunking
and ARL. The FCIP Trunking feature allows multiple IP source and destination address pairs
(defined as FCIP circuits) via multiple 1-GbE or 10-GbE interfaces to provide a high-bandwidth
FCIP tunnel and failover resiliency. Each FCIP circuit also supports four QoS classes (Class-F,
Hi, Medium, and Low Priority), each as a TCP connection. The ARL feature provides a minimum
bandwidth guarantee for each tunnel, with full utilization of the available network bandwidth
without impacting throughput performance under high traffic load. This license is available
on the 1606 Extension SAN Switch and DC SAN Backbone Director/DC04 SAN Director
for the DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade on an individual slot basis.
• 10-GbE FCIP—This license enables the two 10-GbE ports on the DC SAN Director Multiprotocol
Extension Blade. With this license, two additional operating modes (in addition to 10 1-GbE
ports mode) can be selected:
◦ 10 1-GbE ports and 1 10-GbE port
◦ 2 10-GbE ports
This license is available on the DC SAN Backbone Director/DC04 SAN Director for the DC
SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade on an individual slot basis.
• Advanced FICON Acceleration—This licensed feature uses specialized data management
techniques and automated intelligence to accelerate FICON tape read and write and IBM
Global Mirror data replication operations over distance, while maintaining the integrity of
command and acknowledgement sequences. This license is available on the HP 1606 SAN
Extension Switch and the HP SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Backbone Director Switch, HP SN8000B
4-Slot SAN Director Switch, HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Switch, HP
StorageWorks DC04 SAN Director Switch for the HP DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension
Blade on an individual slot basis.
Included licensed software
• Enhanced Group Management—This license is included with all HP 8Gb switches. Enhanced
Group Management enables full management of the device in a data center fabric, with
Enhancements 7