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Brocade 7800 Upgrade license

The Brocade 7800 has four Fibre Channel (FC) ports and two GbE ports active by default. The

number of physical ports active on the Brocade 7800 is fixed. There is one upgrade license to

activate the rest of the FC and GbE ports for a total of 16 FC ports and 6 GbE ports. The 7800

Upgrade license activates FC and GbE ports, and also activates additional features outlined in

Table 85.

NOTE

You must reboot the Brocade 7800 switch after installing the 7800 Upgrade license.

ICL licensing

Brocade ICL links operate between the core blades of the DCX 8510 Backbone family, or between

the core blades of the DCX and DCX-4S Backbones. Typically, if both core blades are installed, then

they are active on the DCX and DCX-4S (or DCX 8510 family) Backbones.

ICL ports on core blades of a DCX 8510-8 can be used only with an ICL (1st or 2nd) POD license.

ICL ports on core blades of a DCX 8510-4 can be used only with an ICL 1st POD license.

ICL ports on core blades of a DCX can be used only with an ICL 16-link or ICL 8-link license. ICL

ports on core blades of a DCX-4S can be used only with an ICL 8-link license.

After the addition or removal of a license, the license enforcement is performed on the ICL ports

only when the portDisable and portEnable commands are issued on the ports. An ICL license must

be installed on the enterprise platforms at both ends of the ICL connection.

ICL 1st POD license

The ICL 1st POD license activates half of the ICL bandwidth on the Brocade DCX 8510-8 platform or

all of the ICL bandwidth on the Brocade DCX 8510-4.

Web Tools No license required. Local and any switch you will be

managing using Web Tools.

Zoning No license required. N/A

TABLE 84 License requirements and location name by feature (Continued)

Feature License Where license should be installed

TABLE 85 Base to Upgrade license comparison

Feature Base model 7800 Upgrade license

Number of Fibre Channel (FC) ports 4 16

Number of GbE ports 2 6

Number of 10-GbE ports 0 0

Number of FCIP Tunnels 2 8

Tape Pipelining over FCIP Tunnel No Yes