Brocade Fabric OS Software Licensing Guide (Supporting Fab Bedienungsanleitung

53-1003139-0127 June 2014Fabric OSSoftware Licensing GuideSupporting Fabric OS 7.3.0

‐ FC8-32E port blade‐ FC8-48E port blade‐ FC8-64 port blade‐ FC16-32 port blade‐ FC16-48 port blade‐ FC16-64 port blade‐ FCOE10-24 blade (not supporte

Software Licensing Overview● Licensing overview...

License typesThe following license types are supported in Fabric OS:• Permanent license - A permanent license enables a license-controlled feature to

1. Order a license for the desired licensed feature.NOTETo obtain a trial license, contact your Brocade representative.2. When you receive the paperpa

The Brocade FOS License Generation window displays as shown below.FIGURE 2 Brocade FOS License Generation window5. Enter the requested information in

Viewing software license information from the Brocade licensingportalThis section describes other software licensing tasks supported from the Brocade

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Fabric OS Licenses● Available Fabric OS licenses... 15● Brocade

Available Brocade licenses (Continued)TABLE 1 License DescriptionAdaptiveNetworking withQoSProvides a rich framework of capability, allowing a user

Available Brocade licenses (Continued)TABLE 1 License DescriptionBrocade ISLTrunking• Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into

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Available Brocade licenses (Continued)TABLE 1 License DescriptionEnterprise ICL Allows you to connect four or more chassis to a Brocade DCX 8510 cha

Available Brocade licenses (Continued)TABLE 1 License DescriptionICL 16-Link Activates all 16 links on ICL ports on a Brocade DCX chassis. Each chas

Available Brocade licenses (Continued)TABLE 1 License DescriptionWAN RateUpgrade 2Provides unlimited WAN transmission throughput (other than the phy

ICL ports on core blades of a DCX can be used only with an ICL 16-link or ICL 8-link license. ICL portson core blades of a DCX-4S can be used only wit

The EICL license is required in addition to the ICL POD license.The following requirements apply:• Connection of three or fewer DCX 8510 Backbones wit

port on the switch, or the switchDisable and switchEnable commands on the switch, to enable 8Gbps features.• When you remove the 8G license, the ports

Slot-based licensingSlot-based licensing is used on the Brocade DCX and DCX 8510 Backbone families to support theFX8-24 blade, and on the Brocade DCX

license, you are given a time limit to use the feature. A temporary license can be either a regulartemporary license or a universal temporary license.

CAUTIONIf you are using NTP to synchronize the time between your network devices, including switchesor Backbones, then do not attempt to change the sy

Licensing Tasks● Software licensing configuration tasks... 27● Licensing comm

ContentsPreface...3D

Licensing commandsThe following table summarizes the Fabric OS CLI commands that can be used for licensed featuremanagement. For detailed information

Some features may require additional configuration, or you may need to disable and re-enable theswitch to make them operational; refer to the feature

Enabling 10 Gbps operation on an FC portUse the following procedure to enable 10 Gbps operation on an FC port on a Brocade 6510 or 6520switch or an FC

3. Use the licenseShow command to check the results of automatic license assignment. If the resultsare not what you intended, use the licenseSlotCfg c

The license key is case-sensitive and must be entered exactly as given. The quotation marks areoptional. After removing a license key, the licensed fe

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.2. Enter the licenseShow command.switch:admin> licenseshow bQebzbRdScRf

Troubleshooting licensing issuesSome features require licenses in order to work properly. To view a list of features and theirassociated licenses, ref

The Switch Administration window displays.FIGURE 5 Switch Administration window2. Select the License tab and click Add.The Add License dialog box disp

Assigning slots for a license keyThis feature allows you to increase the capacity without disrupting the slots that already have licensedfeatures runn

Ports on Demand Licensing● Ports on Demand overview... 37● A

Adding a licensed feature... 28Activating a slot-based licensed feature...

List of available user ports when implementing PODs TABLE 5 Platform Available user ports,No POD licenseAvailable user ports,POD1 or POD2 presentAva

Activating Ports on Demand using a Telnet sessionUse the following procedure to activate Ports on Demand.1. Connect to the switch and log in using an

The Add Port License dialog box is displayed.FIGURE 8 Add Port License dialog box3. Enter the license key in the License Key field to add the addition

Displaying installed licensesIf a single license is installed that enables all Ports on Demand, the license will display as "Full Ports onDemand

For the embedded switch modules, the Dynamic POD feature detects and assigns ports to a PODlicense only if the server blade is installed with an HBA p

3. Enter the reboot command to restart the switch.switch:admin> reboot4. Enter the licensePort --show command to verify the switch started the Dyna

3. Enter the reboot command to restart the switch.4. Enter the licensePort --show command to verify the switch changed to static POD.switch:admin>

NonePorts not assigned to a license:0, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 203. Take the following appropriate action based on whether port

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License Requirements for FeaturesThe following table lists licensed features, each feature’s associated license name, and, if applicable,the location

Preface● Document conventions...3● Brocade resource

License requirements and location name by feature (Continued)TABLE 6 Feature License Where license should beinstalledFCIP High Performance Extension

License requirements and location name by feature (Continued)TABLE 6 Feature License Where license should beinstalledIn-flight encryption andcompres

License requirements and location name by feature (Continued)TABLE 6 Feature License Where license should beinstalledOpenSSH public key No license r

License requirements and location name by feature (Continued)TABLE 6 Feature License Where license should beinstalledSpeed 8 Gbps license needed to

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Index10 Gbps operation on an FC port, enabling 3010G license 23, 3016-link ICL license 211st POD ICL license 212nd POD ICL license 218G license 228-li

Ggenerating license 27IICL16-link license 211st POD license 212nd POD license 218-link license 21enterprise license 21licensing 20, 21install license

activating POD 39disabling dynamic POD 43displaying license assignments 42dynamic POD 41enabling dynamic POD 42releasing from a POD set 45reserving a

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Convention Descriptionvalue In Fibre Channel products, a fixed value provided as input to a commandoption is printed in plain text, for example, --sho

Brocade resourcesVisit the Brocade website to locate related documentation for your product and additional Brocaderesources.You can download additiona

• OEM/Solution Providers are trained and certified by Brocade to support Brocade® products.• Brocade provides backline support for issues that cannot

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