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Licensing overview
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TABLE 77 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 Top Talkers feature.
Brocade Extended Fabrics Provides greater than 10km of switched fabric connectivity at full
bandwidth over long distances (depending on the platform this can be
up to 3000km).