Deployment Guide

License requirements and location name by feature (Continued)TABLE 6
Feature License Where license should be
installed
In-flight encryption and
compression
No license required. N/A
Inband Management No license required. N/A
Ingress rate limiting No license required.
Adaptive Networking with QoS license is required for
switches running Fabric OS versions earlier than 7.2.0.
The Brocade 6520 does not require a license
regardless of Fabric OS version.
N/A for local switches running
Fabric OS 7.2.0 or later.
License required on local
switches running Fabric OS
versions earlier than 7.2.0.
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
License Requirements for Features
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