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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 7
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7800 switch license options
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7800 switch license options
Some of the capabilities of the Brocade 7800 switch require the following feature license, 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 VEX_Ports to support Fibre
Channel Routing (FCR).
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, support of advanced
capabilities such as open
systems tape pipelining (OSTP),
FICON CUP support, and
separately licensed advanced
FICON acceleration feature.
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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 VEX_Ports
to support Fibre Channel Routing
(FCR).
Integrated Routing license
Advanced Extension License Required for multiple-circuit
tunnels, FCIP trunking, Adaptive
Rate Limiting (ARL), and other
FCIP features.
Advanced Extension (FTR_AE) license