Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.3.0 (53-1001336-02, November 2009)

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Licensing overview
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TABLE 75 Available Brocade licenses
License Description
10GbE License This license enables the two 10GbE ports on the FX8-24. With
this license, two additional operating modes (in addition to 10
1GbE ports mode) can be selected:
• 10 1GbE ports and 1 10GbE port, or
• 2 10GbE ports
This license is available on the Brocade 7800 switch, and the
Brocade DCX and DCX-4S for the FX8-24 on an individual slot
basis.
7500E Upgrade This license allows you to upgrade a 4-port (2 FC ports and 2
GbE ports) 7500E base switch to a full 18-port (16 FC ports
and 2 GbE ports) 7500 switch configuration and feature
capability. The upgraded 7500E Extension Switch includes the
complete High Performance Extension license feature set.
7800 Upgrade License This license 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. A Brocade 7800 switch with the Upgrade License
also supports up to eight FCIP tunnels instead of two and
supports advanced capabilities like tape read/write pipelining.
The Brocade 7800 switch must have the Upgrade License to
add FICON Management Server (CUP) or Advanced Accelerator
for FICON.
Adaptive Networking with QoS Adaptive Networking provides a rich framework of capability
allowing you to ensure 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 the first components of this
license option, and are fully available on all 8 Gbps platforms.
Advanced Extension License This license enables two advanced extension features: FCIP
Trunking and Adaptive Rate Limiting. The FCIP Trunking feature
allows 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. In addition, each FCIP circuit supports
four 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 utilization of the available network bandwidth without
impacting throughput performance under high traffic load. This
license is available on the Brocade 7800 switch, and the
Brocade DCX and DCX-4S for the FX8-24 on an individual slot
basis.
Advanced FICON Acceleration This licensed feature uses specialized data management
techniques and automated intelligence to accelerate FICON
tape read and write and IBM Global Mirror data replication
operations over distance, while maintaining the integrity of
command and acknowledgement sequences. This license is
available on the Brocade 7800 switch, and the Brocade DCX
and DCX-4S for the FX8-24 on an individual slot basis.
Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring Enables performance monitoring of networked storage
resources. This license includes the TopTalkers feature.