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Licensing overview
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Enterprise ICL Allows you to connect more than four chassis in a fabric using ICLs.
You can connect up to four Brocade DCX 8510 Backbones via ICLs
without this license. If the number of interconnected chassis using
ICLs exceeds four, then all of the chassis using ICLs require the
Enterprise ICL license.
You must also have an ICL POD license on each DCX 8510 to activate
the ICL ports The Enterprise ICL license only allows connection of
more than four chassis using ICLs in a fabric, it does not enable the
ICL ports on a chassis.
NOTE: Applies to the Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone family only.
FCoE Included with the Brocade 8000 switch; enables Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) functions.
FICON Management Server
(Also known as Control Unit Port or “CUP”) Enables host-control of switches in mainframe environments.
High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC
(formerly known as “FC-IP Services”) Includes the IPsec capabilities.
ICL 8-Link Activates all eight links on ICL ports on a Brocade DCX-4S chassis or
half of the ICL bandwidth for each ICL port on the Brocade DCX
platform by enabling only eight links out of the sixteen links available.
This allows you to purchase half the bandwidth of DCX ICL ports
initially and upgrade with an additional ICL 8-link license to utilize the
full ICL bandwidth at a later time. This license is also useful for
environments that want to create ICL connections between a DCX and
a DCX-4S; the latter cannot support more than eight links on an ICL
port.
Available on the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S Backbones only.
ICL 16-Link Activates all 16 links on ICL ports on a Brocade DCX chassis. Each
chassis must have the ICL 16-Link license installed in order to enable
the full 16-link ICL connections.
Available on the Brocade DCX only.
Inter-Chassis Link (1st POD) Activates half of the ICL bandwidth on a DCX 8510-8, or all the ICL
bandwidth on a DCX 8510-4, allowing you to enable only the
bandwidth needed, and upgrade to additional bandwidth at a later
time. This license is also useful for environments that wish to create
ICL connections between a DCX 8510-8 and a DCX 8510-4; the latter
platform supports only half the number of ICL links that the former
platform supports.
Available on the Brocade DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4 Backbones
only.
Inter-Chassis Link (2nd POD) Activates the remaining ICL bandwidth on the Brocade DCX 8510-8
chassis. Each chassis must have this ICL license installed in order to
enable all available ICL connections.
Available on the Brocade DCX 8510-8 only.
TABLE 69 Available Brocade licenses (Continued)
License Description