Brocade Communications Systems 6650 manual Ports on Demand Overview, Feature Brocade ICX

	Chapter
Ports on Demand Licensing	4

In this chapter

•Ports on Demand terminology	74
•PoD licensing rules	74
•PoD licensing configuration tasks	74
•Viewing PoD licensing information from the Brocade software portal . . . .	80
•Transferring a PoD license	82
•Syslog message information	82
•Ports on Demand Licensing	82
•Viewing information about PoD licenses	91

Ports on Demand Overview

The Brocade ICX 6650 device features Ports on Demand licensing. With Ports on Demand licensing, software features do not require licenses and you can add port licenses as needed.

The Brocade ICX 6650 device supports:

•56 front-panel, dual-speed 1/10 GbE SFP+ ports

•4 rear-panel 40 GbE QSFP+ ports

•2 rear-panel 4x10 GbE QSFP+ breakout ports.

When a license is ordered, an entitlement certificate or e-mail message, along with a transaction key, are issued to the customer by Brocade as proof of purchase. The transaction key and License ID (LID) of the Brocade device are used to generate a license key from the Brocade software licensing portal. The license key is contained within a license file, which is downloaded to the customer’s PC, where the file can then be transferred to a TFTP or SCP server, and then uploaded to the Brocade device.

Table 14 lists the Brocade ICX 6650 and the Ports on Demand (PoD) licensing features the switch supports.

TABLE 14 Supported Ports on Demand features

Feature	Brocade ICX 6650
License generation	Yes
License query	Yes
Deleting a license	Yes

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