Brocade Fabric OS FCIP Administrator's Guide v7.1.0 (53-1002748-01, March 2013)

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7800 switch license options

Some of the capabilities of the Brocade 7800 switch require the following feature licenses, as

described in Table 2.

• The Advanced FICON Acceleration License enables all FICON emulation features:

- FICON Tape Read Pipelining

- FICON Tape Write Pipelining

- FICON IBM z/OS Global Mirror (formerly eXtended Remote Copy or XRC) Emulation

- FICON Teradata Emulation

- FICON Printer Emulation

• The Integrated Routing (IR) License is required to configure EX_Ports and VEX_Ports to support

Fibre Channel Routing (FCR).

NOTE

FCR is not supported on a 7800 switch that has been partitioned for virtual fabrics.

Refer to the chapter on administering licensing in the Brocade Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for

complete information about licensing requirements.

TABLE 2 7800 FCIP feature licenses

Feature Purpose License (licenseShow output)

7800 upgrade Enables full hardware

capabilities, full FCIP tunnel

capabilities, and support of open

systems tape pipelining (OSTP).

1. Reboot of 7800 is required after activating the 7800 upgrade license.

7800 Upgrade license

Advanced FICON acceleration Enables accelerated tape

read/write and IBM z/OS Global

Mirror, Teradata, and printer

emulation features in FICON

environments.

Advanced FICON Acceleration (FTR_AFA)

license

Integrated routing (IR) Required to configure EX_Ports

and VEX_Ports to support Fibre

Channel Routing (FCR).

Integrated Routing license

Advanced Extension License Required for multiple-circuit

tunnels, FCIP Trunking and

Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL).

Advanced Extension (FTR_AE) license