Users Guide

520 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
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Licensing overview
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Extended Fabrics Extended Fabrics Local switch and any attached
switches.
Fabric Watch No license required for baseline monitoring
capabilities.
Fabric Watch license or Fabric Vision license
required for full functionality.
See the Fabric Watch
Administrator’s Guide.
FCIP High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC NOTE: Local and attached
switches. License is needed
on both sides of tunnel.
FCIP Trunking Advanced Extension Local and attached switches.
Fibre Channel
Routing/EX_Ports
Integrated Routing Local switch.
FICON No license required. N/A
FICON-CUP FICON Management Server Local switch.
FICON Tape Read and
Write Emulation over an
FCIP Tunnel
• FICON Tape
• High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC
license or Advanced FICON Acceleration
license on Brocade 7800
Local and attached switches.
FICON XRC Sequence
Emulation over an FCIP
Tunnel
• FICON XRC
• High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC
license or Advanced FICON Acceleration
license on Brocade 7800
Local and attached switches.
FIPS No license required. N/A
Firmware download No license required.
NOTE: The firmwareDownload command is
provided automatically with Fabric OS
on the switch.
N/A
Flow Vision:
• Flow Generator
• Flow Performance
Monitor
• Flow Mirror
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.
Full fabric connectivity Full Fabric
NOTE: Also called the Fabric license (visible in
licenseShow output) and the E_Port
Upgrade license.
Local switch. May be required on
attached switches.
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.
TABLE 84 License requirements and location name by feature (Continued)
Feature License Where license should be installed