Deployment Guide

Available Brocade licenses (Continued)TABLE 1
License Description
Adaptive
Networking with
QoS
Provides a rich framework of capability, allowing a user to ensure that high-priority connections
obtain the bandwidth necessary for optimum performance, even in congested environments.
The QoS SID/DID Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting features are included in this license,
and are fully available on all 8-Gb and 16-Gb platforms.
NOTE
The Brocade 6520 does not require an Adaptive Networking with QoS license to enable the
capabilities associated with this license. These capabilities are included by default on the
Brocade 6520.
NOTE
This license is automatically enabled for new switches that operate with only Fabric OS 7.2.0
or later and for existing switches that are upgraded to Fabric OS 7.2.0 or later.
Advanced
Extension
• Enables two advanced extension features: FCIP Trunking and Adaptive Rate Limiting.
• FCIP Trunking feature allows all of the following:
‐ Multiple (up to 4) IP source and destination address pairs (defined as FCIP
Circuits) using multiple (up to 4) 1-GbE or 10-GbE interfaces to provide a high
bandwidth FCIP tunnel and failover resiliency.
‐ Support for up to 4 of the following QoS classes: Class-F, high, medium and
low priority, each as a TCP connection.
• The Adaptive Rate Limiting feature provides a minimum bandwidth guarantee for each
tunnel with full usage of available network bandwidth without any negative impact to
throughput performance under high traffic load.
• Available on the Brocade 7800 switch, Brocade 7840, and the Brocade DCX and
DCX-4S and the Brocade DCX 8510 family for the FX8-24 on an individual slot basis, .
Advanced FICON
Acceleration
• Allows use of 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 acknowledgment
sequences.
• Available on the Brocade 7800 switch, Brocade 7840, and the Brocade DCX and
DCX-4S and the Brocade DCX 8510 family for the FX8-24 on an individual slot basis.
Brocade
Advanced
Performance
Monitoring
• Enables performance monitoring of networked storage resources.
• Includes the Top Talkers feature.
Brocade Extended
Fabrics
Provides greater than 10 km of switched fabric connectivity at full bandwidth over long
distances (depending on the platform, this can be up to 3000 km).
NOTE
This license is not required for long distance connectivity using licensed 10G ports.
Brocade Fabric
Watch
• Monitors mission-critical switch operations.
• Includes Port Fencing capabilities.
Fabric OS Licenses
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