368 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
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Licensing overview
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Table 65 lists the optionally licensed features that are available in Fabric OS 7.0.1:
TABLE 65 Available Brocade licenses
License Description
10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel
(10G license)
• Allows 10 Gbps operation of FC ports on the Brocade 6510
switch or the FC ports of FC16-32 or FC16-48 port blades
installed on a Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone.
• Enables the two 10-GbE ports on the FX8-24 extension blade
when installed on the Brocade DCX, DCX-4S, DCX 8510-4, or DCX
8510-8 Backbone.
• Allows selection of the following operational modes on the
FX8-24 blade:
- 10 1-GbE ports and 1 10-GbE port, or
- 2 10-GbE ports
• License is slot-based when applied to a Brocade Backbone. It is
chassis-based when applied to a Brocade 6510 switch.
7800 Upgrade
• 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.
• Supports up to eight FCIP tunnels instead of two.
• Supports advanced capabilities such as tape read/write
pipelining.
NOTE: The Brocade 7800 switch must have the 7800 Upgrade
license to add FICON Management Server (CUP) or Advanced
FICON Acceleration licenses.
Adaptive Networking with QoS
• Enables the QoS SID/DID Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting
features. These features ensure high priority connections by
obtaining the bandwidth necessary for optimum performance,
even in congested environments.
• Available on all 8 Gbps and all 16 Gbps platforms.
Advanced Extension
• Enables two advanced extension features: FCIP Trunking and
Adaptive Rate Limiting.
• FCIP Trunking feature allows all of the following:
- 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.
- Support for up to 4 of the following 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 usage of available
network bandwidth without any negative impact to throughput
performance under high traffic load.
• Available on the Brocade 7800 switch, and the Brocade DCX and
DCX-4S and the Brocade DCX 8510 family for the FX8-24 on an
individual slot basis.
Advanced FICON Acceleration
• Allows use of 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.
• Available on the Brocade 7800 switch, and the Brocade DCX and
DCX-4S and the Brocade DCX 8510 family for the FX8-24 on an
individual slot basis.
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