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Data Sheet
IBM System Storage
IBM Systems and Technology
Web Tools, Zoning, Full Fabric, Virtual Fabrics and Enhanced
Group Management (EGM) (listed below) are part of the base
FOS and do not require a license.
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Web Tools
enable graphical user interface (GUI)-based
administration, configuration and maintenance of fabric
switches and SANs
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Zoning
segments a fabric into virtual private SANs to
restrict device communication and apply certain policies
only to members within the same zone
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Full Fabric
enables E_Ports and allows SAN768B-2 and
SAN384B-2 to connect to other switches
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Virtual Fabrics
allow a physical switch to be partitioned
into independently managed logical switches, each with its
own data, control and management paths
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EGM
enables additional device-level management
functionality for SAN b-type products when added to the
element management and also allows large consolidated
operations to groups of devices (such as firmware downloads
and configuration uploads and downloads).
These optional licenses are also available:
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FICON with control unit port (CUP) activation
is
designed to provide in-band management of the supported
SAN b-type switch and director products by system
automation for IBM z/OS, performance data for Resource
Measurement Facility (RMF), and to provide unsolicited
status to IBM MVS. This support is designed to provide a
single point of control for managing connectivity in active
FICON I/O configurations. To enable in-band management
on multiple switches and directors, each chassis must be
configured with the appropriate FICON CUP feature.
Up to four CUPs per chassis can be enabled.
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Integrated Routing
allows any 8 or 16 Gbps FC port in
SAN768B-2 and SAN384B-2 to be configured as an
EX_Port supporting Fibre Channel Routing (FCR).
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Inter-chassis license kit
with 16×64 Gbps quad small
form-factor pluggable (QSFP) activates ICL ports on the
core blades of the 16 Gbps platforms. One ICL Ports on
Demand (POD) license only enables half of the ICL ports
on core blades of a SAN768B-2 platform or all of the
ICL ports on the core blades of a SAN384B-2 platform.
Each kit features sixteen 4×16 Gbps ICL QSFP transceivers.
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Inter-chassis license
with 16× (4×16 Gbps) QSFP provides
connectivity up to 100 meters from the switching backplane
of one half of an eight-slot chassis to the other half, or to a
4-slot chassis.
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Enterprise ICL license
supports up to 3,840×16 Gbps
universal FC ports (using 16 Gbps 48-port blades); up to
5,120×8 Gbps universal FC ports (using 8 Gbps 64-port
blades); ICL ports (32 or 16 per chassis, optical QSFP)
connected up to nine chassis in a full-mesh topology or up
to 10 chassis in a core-edge topology. Connecting five or
more chassis via ICLs requires an Enterprise ICL license.
These optional advanced SAN Extension functionality licenses
are available as well:
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Advanced Extension activation license
enables two
advanced extension features, FCIP trunking and adaptive rate
limiting (ARL) on the SAN768B-2 or SAN384B-2 systems.
The FCIP trunking feature allows multiple IP source and
destination address pairs (defined as FCIP circuits) via
multiple 1 GbE interfaces to provide a high-bandwidth
FCIP tunnel and failover resiliency. The ARL feature is
designed to provide a minimum bandwidth guarantee for
each tunnel with full utilisation of the available network
bandwidth without impacting throughput performance
under high traffic load.
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Extension blade 10 GbE activation license
enables up
to two 10 GbE ports on the 8 Gbps extension blades or
8 ×10 Gbps FC ports on the first eight ports of a 16 Gbps
port blade. With this license, two additional operating modes,
in addition to 1 GbE port mode, can be selected. Either two
10 GbE ports, or ten 1 GbE and one 10 GbE ports, can be
configured on an 8 Gbps extension blade when this license
is activated.
