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Licensing overview
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Table 69 lists the optionally licensed features that are available in Fabric OS 7.1.
TABLE 69 Available Brocade licenses
License Description
10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel
(10G license)
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Allows 10 Gbps operation of FC ports on the Brocade 6510or
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.
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Allows selection of the following operational modes on the
FX8-24 blade:
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10 1-GbE ports and 1 10-GbE port, or
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2 10-GbE ports
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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
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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. See
“Brocade 7800 Upgrade
license” on page 470 for details.
Adaptive Networking with QoS Provides a rich framework of capability, allowing a user to ensure that
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 8-Gb and 16-Gb platforms.
NOTE: The Brocade 6520 does not require an Adaptive Networking
with QoS license to enable the capabilities associated with
this license. These capabilities are included by default on the
Brocade 6520.
Advanced Extension
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Enables two advanced extension features: FCIP Trunking and
Adaptive Rate Limiting.
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FCIP Trunking feature allows all of the following:
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Multiple (up to 4) IP source and destination address pairs
(defined as FCIP Circuits) using multiple (up to 4) 1-GbE or
10-GbE interfaces to provide a high bandwidth FCIP tunnel
and failover resiliency.
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Support for up to 4 of the following QoS classes: Class-F,
high, medium and low priority, each as a TCP connection.
•
The Adaptive Rate Limiting feature provides a minimum
bandwidth guarantee for each tunnel with full usage of available
network bandwidth without any negative impact to throughput
performance under high traffic load.
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Available on the Brocade 7800 switch, and the Brocade DCX and
DCX-4S and the Brocade DCX 8510 family for the FX8-24 on an
individual slot basis.