376 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
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8G licensing
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8G licensing
This license is installed by default and you should not remove it. Port operation may become
disrupted, and ports may be prevented from operating at 8 Gbps when the license is removed.
The 8 Gbps license applies to the Brocade 300, 5100, 5300, and VA-40FC switches and the 8
Gbps embedded switches; this license does not apply to the Brocade 6505 or 6510.
The following list describes the basic rules of using, adding, or removing 8G licenses:
• Without an 8G license, even if there is an 8 Gbps SFP plugged into a port in an applicable
platform, the port would be enabled to run at a maximum speed of 4 Gbps.
• To obtain an 8G license, only the license ID from the switch is required. When you add the 8G
license, you must enter either the portDisable and portEnable commands on each individual
port on the switch, or the switchDisable and switchEnable commands on the switch, to enable
8 Gbps features.
• When you remove the 8G license, the ports that are online and already running at 8 Gbps are
not disturbed until the port goes offline or the switch is rebooted. The switch ports return to
their pre-licensed state maximum speed of 4 Gbps.
Slot-based licensing
Slot-based licensing is used on the Brocade DCX and DCX 8510 Backbone families to support the
FX8-24 blade, and on the Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone family to support the 16 Gbps FC port
blades (FC16-24 and FC16-48). License capacity is equal to the number of slots. These licenses
allow you to select the slots that the license will enable up to the capacity purchased and to
increase the capacity without disrupting slots that already have licensed features running. Each
slot-based license key is for a single feature.
Features utilizing slot-based licenses on the FX8-24 blade include:
• 10GbE
• Advanced Extension
• Advanced FICON Acceleration
All other licensed blade features continue to be exclusively chassis-based licenses.
Features using slot-based licenses on the 16 Gbps FC port blades include 10 Gbps FC port
operation.
The 10 GbE feature on the FX8-24 blade and the 10 Gbps FC feature on the 16 Gbps FC blades are
both enabled by the same 10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel license (10G license). This license can also
enable the 10 Gbps FC feature on a Brocade 6510 switch as a chassis-based license.
Any unassigned slot-based license will be automatically assigned to applicable blades that are
detected in the chassis when the license is installed. If you have more applicable blades than
available license capacity, then you can manually assign or re-assign the licenses as necessary.
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