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Optionally Licensed Software
Brocade Ports on Demand — Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional ports via license key upgrade*.
Q-Flex Ports on Demand — On Brocade G620, enables ports with QSFP media module. Each module allows 4 individual user ports. Total number of user ports enabled by the license is displayed as the capacity for this license.
ICL 16-link, or Inter Chassis Links – This license provides dedicated high-bandwidth links between two Brocade DCX 8510 & X6 chassis, without consuming valuable front-end 16Gb or 32Gb ports. More information about ICL, click here.
ICL 1st POD — Activates half of the ICL bandwidth on a DCX 8510-8 or X6-8, or all the ICL bandwidth on a DCX 8510-4 or X6-4, allowing you to enable only the bandwidth needed, and upgrade to additional bandwidth at a later time.
ICL 2nd POD — Activates the remaining ICL bandwidth on the Brocade DCX 8510-8 or X6-8 chassis. Each chassis must have this ICL license installed in order to enable all available ICL connections.
Brocade ISL Trunking — Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one logical link for enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. Also includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on those products that support Access Gateway deployment.
Brocade Extended Fabrics — Provides greater than 10km of switched fabric connectivity at full bandwidth over long distances (depending on platform this can be up to 3000km**).
Full Fabric — Enables a switch to connect to a multi-switch fabric via E_Ports, forming ISL connections.
Integrated Routing — Allows any ports in Brocade G620, 6510, 6520, 7840, DCX 8510 and X6 family platforms to be configured as an EX_Port supporting FC-FC routing.
Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring — Enables performance monitoring of networked storage resources. This license includes the TopTalkers feature***.
Brocade Fabric Watch — Monitors mission-critical switch operations. Fabric Watch also includes Port Fencing capabilities***.
Brocade Fabric Vision— Enables Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS), Flow Vision & run D_Port tests between a switch and non-Brocade HBAs.
This license replaces the Advanced Performance Monitor (APM) and Fabric Watch (FW) licenses. If you have the Fabric Vision license, you can use Advanced Performance Monitoring and Fabric Watch features without the APM and FW licenses.
Brocade 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 acknowledgment sequences.
Available on the Brocade 7840 and the Brocade DCX 8510 family for the FX8-24 on an individual slot basis.
FICON Management Server — Also known as “CUP” (Control Unit Port), enables host-control of switches in Mainframe environments.
Server Application Optimization — When deployed with Brocade Server Adapters, this license optimizes overall application performance for physical servers and virtual machines by extending virtual channels to the server infrastructure. Application specific traffic flows can be configured, prioritized, and optimized throughout the entire data center infrastructure. This license is not supported on the Brocade 8000.
Advanced Extension – 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. Another element is the 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 7840 and the Brocade DCX 8510 family for the FX8-24 on an
individual slot basis.
Enhanced Group Management — This license, available only on the DCX, DCX-4S and other 8G platforms, enables full management of the device in a datacenter fabric with deeper element management functionality and greater management task aggregation throughout the environment. This license is used in conjunction with Brocade’s Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) application software.
7800 & 7840 Licenses
7800 Port Upgrade — This new license allows a Brocade 7800 to enable 16 FC ports (instead of the base four ports) and six GbE ports (instead of the base two ports). This license is also required to enable additional FCIP tunnels and also for advanced capabilities like tape read/write pipelining. ****
WAN Rate Upgrade 1 — Provides additional WAN transmission throughput up to 10 Gbps on the Gen6 platform. Without WAN Rate Upgrade 1 license, the device provides WAN throughput of 5 Gbps.
WAN Rate Upgrade 1 — Provides unlimited WAN transmission throughput (other than the physical port limit) and enables two 40 GbE ports on the Gen6 platform. You cannot use the 40 GbE ports without the WAN Rate Upgrade 2 license.
| Product configuration | FC Ports | Ethernet Ports | WAN rate limiting | Approximate Application throughput |
| Base configuration | 24 16-Gbps | 16 1/10-GbE | 5 Gbps | 15 Gbps (see note above) |
| Medium configuration (Base + WAN Rate Upgrade 1) | 24 16-Gbps | 16 1/10-GbE | 10 Gbps | 30 Gbps (see note above) |
| Max configuration (Base + WAN Rate Upgrade 1 and WAN Rate Upgrade 2) | 24 16-Gbps | 16 1/10-GbE + 2 40-GbE | Unlimited | 80 Gbps (see note above) |
Temporary License Support
The following licenses are available for 45-day temporary use, with a maximum of two temporary licenses per feature and per switch (90 days maximum):
- Fabric (E_Port) license
- Extended Fabric license
- Trunking license
- High Performance Extension license
- Advanced Performance Monitoring license
- Adaptive Networking license
- Fabric Watch license
- Integrated Routing license
- Server Application Optimization
- Advanced Extension license
- Advanced FICON Acceleration license
- 10GbE FCIP license
Note: Temporary Licenses for features available on a per slot basis enable the feature for any and all slots in the chassis.
Notes:
* Applies to the Brocade 300, 6505, 6510, 6520, G610 & G620
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** This license is not required for long distance connectivity using licensed 10G ports. Need a special SFP for long distance.
*** Applies to Gen5 platforms only.
Brocade 300 License Activation
**** The Brocade 7800 must have the Port Upgrade license installed to add FICON Management Sever (CUP) or Advanced Accelerator for FICON.
Optionally Licensed Software
Brocade Ports on Demand — Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional ports via license key upgrade*.
Q-Flex Ports on Demand — On Brocade G620, enables ports with QSFP media module. Each module allows 4 individual user ports. Total number of user ports enabled by the license is displayed as the capacity for this license.
ICL 16-link, or Inter Chassis Links – This license provides dedicated high-bandwidth links between two Brocade DCX 8510 & X6 chassis, without consuming valuable front-end 16Gb or 32Gb ports. More information about ICL, click here.
ICL 1st POD — Activates half of the ICL bandwidth on a DCX 8510-8 or X6-8, or all the ICL bandwidth on a DCX 8510-4 or X6-4, allowing you to enable only the bandwidth needed, and upgrade to additional bandwidth at a later time.
ICL 2nd POD — Activates the remaining ICL bandwidth on the Brocade DCX 8510-8 or X6-8 chassis. Each chassis must have this ICL license installed in order to enable all available ICL connections.
Brocade ISL Trunking — Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one logical link for enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. Also includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on those products that support Access Gateway deployment.
Brocade Extended Fabrics — Provides greater than 10km of switched fabric connectivity at full bandwidth over long distances (depending on platform this can be up to 3000km**).
Full Fabric — Enables a switch to connect to a multi-switch fabric via E_Ports, forming ISL connections.
Integrated Routing — Allows any ports in Brocade G620, 6510, 6520, 7840, DCX 8510 and X6 family platforms to be configured as an EX_Port supporting FC-FC routing.
Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring — Enables performance monitoring of networked storage resources. This license includes the TopTalkers feature***.
Brocade Fabric Watch — Monitors mission-critical switch operations. Fabric Watch also includes Port Fencing capabilities***.
Brocade Fabric Vision— Enables Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS), Flow Vision & run D_Port tests between a switch and non-Brocade HBAs.
This license replaces the Advanced Performance Monitor (APM) and Fabric Watch (FW) licenses. If you have the Fabric Vision license, you can use Advanced Performance Monitoring and Fabric Watch features without the APM and FW licenses.
Brocade 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 acknowledgment sequences.
Available on the Brocade 7840 and the Brocade DCX 8510 family for the FX8-24 on an individual slot basis.
FICON Management Server — Also known as “CUP” (Control Unit Port), enables host-control of switches in Mainframe environments.
Server Application Optimization — When deployed with Brocade Server Adapters, this license optimizes overall application performance for physical servers and virtual machines by extending virtual channels to the server infrastructure. Application specific traffic flows can be configured, prioritized, and optimized throughout the entire data center infrastructure. This license is not supported on the Brocade 8000.
Advanced Extension – 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. Another element is the 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 7840 and the Brocade DCX 8510 family for the FX8-24 on an
individual slot basis.
Enhanced Group Management — This license, available only on the DCX, DCX-4S and other 8G platforms, enables full management of the device in a datacenter fabric with deeper element management functionality and greater management task aggregation throughout the environment. This license is used in conjunction with Brocade’s Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) application software.
Brocade 300 License Key
7800 & 7840 Licenses
7800 Port Upgrade — This new license allows a Brocade 7800 to enable 16 FC ports (instead of the base four ports) and six GbE ports (instead of the base two ports). This license is also required to enable additional FCIP tunnels and also for advanced capabilities like tape read/write pipelining. ****
WAN Rate Upgrade 1 — Provides additional WAN transmission throughput up to 10 Gbps on the Gen6 platform. Without WAN Rate Upgrade 1 license, the device provides WAN throughput of 5 Gbps.
WAN Rate Upgrade 1 — Provides unlimited WAN transmission throughput (other than the physical port limit) and enables two 40 GbE ports on the Gen6 platform. You cannot use the 40 GbE ports without the WAN Rate Upgrade 2 license.
| Product configuration | FC Ports | Ethernet Ports | WAN rate limiting | Approximate Application throughput |
| Base configuration | 24 16-Gbps | 16 1/10-GbE | 5 Gbps | 15 Gbps (see note above) |
| Medium configuration (Base + WAN Rate Upgrade 1) | 24 16-Gbps | 16 1/10-GbE | 10 Gbps | 30 Gbps (see note above) |
| Max configuration (Base + WAN Rate Upgrade 1 and WAN Rate Upgrade 2) | 24 16-Gbps | 16 1/10-GbE + 2 40-GbE | Unlimited | 80 Gbps (see note above) |
Temporary License Support
The following licenses are available for 45-day temporary use, with a maximum of two temporary licenses per feature and per switch (90 days maximum):
- Fabric (E_Port) license
- Extended Fabric license
- Trunking license
- High Performance Extension license
- Advanced Performance Monitoring license
- Adaptive Networking license
- Fabric Watch license
- Integrated Routing license
- Server Application Optimization
- Advanced Extension license
- Advanced FICON Acceleration license
- 10GbE FCIP license
Note: Temporary Licenses for features available on a per slot basis enable the feature for any and all slots in the chassis.
Notes:
* Applies to the Brocade 300, 6505, 6510, 6520, G610 & G620
** This license is not required for long distance connectivity using licensed 10G ports. Need a special SFP for long distance.
*** Applies to Gen5 platforms only.
**** The Brocade 7800 must have the Port Upgrade license installed to add FICON Management Sever (CUP) or Advanced Accelerator for FICON.