Administrator Guide

Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 521
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Licensing overview
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Inter-chassis link (ICL) • ICL 1st POD (Ports on Demand) on the
Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone family only.
• ICL 2nd POD on the Brocade DCX 8510-8
only.
• ICL 8-link on the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S
only.
• ICL 16-link on the Brocade DCX only.
• Enterprise ICL on the Brocade DCX 8510
Backbone family only, for topologies with
more than four chassis with ICLs.
Local and attached platforms.
IPSec No license required. N/A
IPsec for FCIP tunnels High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC NOTE: Local and attached
switches. License is needed
on both sides of tunnel.
LDAP No license required. N/A
Logical fabric No license required. N/A
Logical switch No license required. N/A
Long distance Extended Fabrics Local and attached switches.
NOTE: License is needed on both
sides of connection.
Monitoring and Alerting
Policy Suite (MAPS)
Fabric Vision
NOTE: If you have both the Advanced
Performance Monitoring and the Fabric
Watch licenses installed, you do not
need the Fabric Vision license.
Local switch.
NPIV No license required. N/A
OpenSSH public key No license required. N/A
Performance monitoring Advanced Performance Monitoring or Fabric
Vision license for advanced features. No license
required for basic features.
Local switch.
Port fencing Fabric Watch Local switch.
Ports
• Ports on Demand licenses required,
applicable to a select set of switches only.
• 7800 Upgrade license for the 7800
switches to use all ports.
• 10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel license to
use 10Gb FC ports on FC16-32 blades,
FC16-48 blades, and the Brocade 6510
and 6520.
• 10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel license to
enable 10Gb Ethernet ports on the FX8-24
extension blades.
Local switch.
TABLE 84 License requirements and location name by feature (Continued)
Feature License Where license should be installed