Brocade Fabric OS v7.0.2e Release Notes v1.0

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Optionally Licensed Software
Fabric OS v7.0.2 includes all basic switch and fabric support software, as well as optionally licensed software
that is enabled via license keys.
Optionally licensed features supported in FOS v7.0.2 include:
Brocade Ports on Demand
—Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional ports via
license key upgrade. (Applies to select models of switches).
Brocade Fabric or E_Port or Full Fabric
— This license enables a switch to connect to a multi-switch fabric via
E_Ports, forming ISL connections.
Note: This license is only required on select embedded switch models and Brocade 300, and does not apply to
other fixed-port switches or chassis-based platforms.
Brocade Extended Fabrics
—Provides greater than 10km of switched fabric connectivity at full bandwidth over
long distances (depending on platform this can be up to 3000km
Brocade ISL Trunking
— Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one logical link for
enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. Also includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on those
products that support Access Gateway deployment.
Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring
—Enables performance monitoring of networked storage resources.
This license includes the Top Talkers feature.
Brocade Fabric Watch
— Monitors mission-critical switch operations and provides notification if established
limits or thresholds are exceeded. Fabric Watch includes Port Fencing capabilities.
High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC (
formerly known as “FCIP Services”) (For the FR4-18i blade) — This
license key also includes the FC-FastWrite feature and IPsec capabilities.
Note
: The FC-FastWrite feature is not supported on FR4-18i in FOS v7.0 or later.
Brocade Accelerator for FICON
– This license enables unique FICON emulation support for IBM’s Global Mirror
(formerly XRC) application (including Hitachi Data Systems HXRC and EMC’s XRC) as well as Tape Pipelining for
all FICON tape and virtual tape systems to significantly improve XRC and tape backup/recovery performance
over virtually unlimited distance for FR4-18i.
FICON Management Server
— Also known as “CUP” (Control Unit Port), enables host-control of switches in
Mainframe environments.
Enhanced Group Management —
This license enables full management of devices in a data center fabric with
deeper element management functionality and greater management task aggregation throughout the
environment. This license is used in conjunction with Brocade Network Advisor application software and is
applicable to all FC platforms supported by FOS v7.0 or later.
Adaptive Networking with QoS
—Adaptive Networking provides a rich framework of capability allowing a user to
ensure 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 8Gb and 16Gb platforms.
Server Application Optimization
— When deployed with Brocade Server Adapters, this license optimizes overall
application performance for physical servers and virtual machines by extending virtual channels to the server
infrastructure. Application specific traffic flows can be configured, prioritized, and optimized throughout the
entire data center infrastructure. This license is not supported on the Brocade 8000.
Integrated Routing
— This license allows any port in a DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4, Brocade 6510, DCX-4S, DCX,
5300, 5100, 7800, or Brocade Encryption Switch to be configured as an EX_Port or VEX_Port (on some
platforms) supporting Fibre Channel Routing. This eliminates the need to add a dedicated router to a fabric for
FCR purposes.
Encryption Performance Upgrade
— This license provides additional encryption processing power. For the
Brocade Encryption Switch or a DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4, the Encryption Performance License