Installation guide

Feature comparison - Base 7800 and with the Upgrade License (Continued)TABLE 1

Feature Base 7800 with Upgrade License

FICON XRC emulation and Tape Pipelining over FCIP No Yes

FICON CUP No Yes

• Before the installation of the Upgrade License, ports beyond the basic four FC and two GbE are

shown as Disabled with the switchShow command.

• On the base 7800, the two SFP ports (ge0 and ge1) can be configured for use with either copper or

optical cables.

• FC frame compression is not the same as IP compression and is disabled by default. It can be

enabled using the portCfg command. For more information see the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide.

• FCIP tunnel bandwidth has a minimum rate of 1544 Kbps (T1 rate). Configuration requests of lower

rates will be rejected.

• FCIP Trunking is available which will "virtualize" two or more TCP connections (circuits) as part of a

single FCIP tunnel. Up to four circuits can be configured for a single FCIP tunnel. See the Fabric OS

Administrator's Guide for details on explicitly configuring circuits.

• Multiple FCIP tunnels can share the same GbE port. At the same time, VE_ and VEx_Ports are not

associated with a single physical GbE port.

Available licenses

The following features are available with the purchase of a specific license key for the Brocade 7800.

• Advanced Extension

• Integrated Routing (IR)

• Advanced Acceleration for FICON

• FICON CUP

• Extended Fabric

• Adaptive Networking

• Server Application Optimization

• ISL Trunking

• Fabric Watch

• Advanced Performance Monitoring

For information on these features, see the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide.

Facility requirements

The following table provides the facilities requirements that must be met for the Brocade 7800.

Requires Advanced FICON Acceleration license

Requires FICON CUP license

Available licenses

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