Deployment Guide

Fabric OS Licenses
● Available Fabric OS licenses.......................................................................................... 15
● Brocade 7800 Upgrade license.......................................................................................20
● ICL licensing....................................................................................................................20
● 8G licensing.................................................................................................................... 22
● 10G licensing.................................................................................................................. 23
● Slot-based licensing........................................................................................................ 24
● Temporary licenses.........................................................................................................24
Available Fabric OS licenses
The following table lists the optionally licensed features that are available in Fabric OS.
Available Brocade licenses TABLE 1
License Description
10 Gigabit FCIP/
Fibre Channel
(10G license)
• Allows 10 Gbps operation of FC ports on the Brocade 6510 or 6520 switches or the FC
ports of FC16-32 or FC16-48 port blades installed on a Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone.
• Enables the two 10-GbE ports on the FX8-24 extension blade when installed on the
Brocade DCX, DCX-4S, DCX 8510-4, or DCX 8510-8 Backbone.
• Allows selection of the following operational modes on the FX8-24 blade:
‐ 10 1-GbE ports and 1 10-GbE port, or
‐ 2 10-GbE ports
• License is slot-based when applied to a Brocade Backbone. It is chassis-based when
applied to a Brocade 6510 or 6520 switch.
7800 Upgrade • Enables full hardware capabilities on the Brocade 7800 base switch, increasing the
number of Fibre Channel ports from four to sixteen and the number of GbE ports from
two to six.
• Supports up to eight FCIP tunnels instead of two.
• Supports advanced capabilities such as tape read/write pipelining.
NOTE
The Brocade 7800 switch must have the 7800 Upgrade license to add FICON Management
Server (CUP) or Advanced FICON Acceleration licenses. Refer to Brocade 7800 Upgrade
license on page 20 for details.
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