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 76 lists the licenses that must be installed on the local switch and any connecting switches to
use the feature.
ICL 8-Link License 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 8-link license to utilize the full ICL bandwidth at a
later time. This license is also useful for environments that
wish to create ICL connections between a DCX and a DCX-4S,
the latter of which cannot support more than 8 links on an ICL
port. Available on the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S platforms only
(This license replaces the original ICL license for the DCX-4S).
Integrated Routing Allows any ports in a Brocade 5100 and 5300 switches, the
Brocade Encryption Switch, or the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S
platforms to be configured as an EX_Port supporting Fibre
Channel Routing. This eliminates the need to add an FR4-18i
blade or use the 7500 for FCR purposes, and also provides
double the bandwidth for each FCR connection when
connected to another 8 Gbps-capable port.
TABLE 76 License requirements
Feature License Where license should be installed
Adaptive Rate Limiting Advanced Extension Local switch.
Administrative Domains No license required. n/a
Bottleneck Detection No license required. n/a
Configuration
up/download
No license required.
Configupload or configdownload is a command
and comes with the OS on the switch.
n/a
Converged Enhanced
Ethernet
Requires FCoE base license and POD1 license.
NOTE: These licenses are installed by default
and you should not remove them.
Local switch.
Brocade 8000 only.
Data Center Fabric
Manager
No license required for base use. For more information on this
products licensing, refer to the Data
Center Fabric Manager Professional
User Manual.
Diagnostic tools No license required. n/a
Distributed Management
Server
No license required. n/a
EX_Ports Integrated Routing Local switch.
Extended Fabrics Extended Fabrics Local switch and attached switches.
Fabric Watch No license required for base use. For more information on this
products licensing, refer to the
Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide.
FC Fastwrite FC-IP Services or
High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC
Local and attached switches.
TABLE 75 Available Brocade licenses
License Description