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Licensing overview
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Logical switch No license required. N/A
Long distance Extended Fabrics Local and attached switches.
NOTE: License is needed on both
sides of connection.
NPIV No license required. N/A
OpenSSH public key No license required. N/A
Performance monitoring Advanced Performance Monitoring for
advanced features. No license required for
basic features.
Local switch.
Port fencing Fabric Watch Local switch.
Ports
• Ports on Demand licenses required,
applicable to a select set of switches only.
• 7800 Upgrade license for the 7800
switches to use all ports.
• 10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel license to
use 10Gb FC ports on FC16-32 blades,
FC16-48 blades, and the Brocade 6510
and 6520.
• 10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel license to
enable 10Gb Ethernet ports on the FX8-24
extension blades.
• Brocade 8000 – Must have license
installed to enable the 8 FC ports. A
maximum of 8 FC ports are allowed.
Local switch.
QoS Adaptive Networking with QoS
(Brocade 6520 does not require this license.)
Local switch and attached switches.
QoS on HBA Server Application Optimization and Adaptive
Networking with QoS
(Brocade 6520 does not require this license.)
Local switch
RADIUS No license required. N/A
RBAC No license required. N/A
Routing traffic No license required.
NOTE: Port-based or exchanged-based routing,
static routes, frame-order deliver, and
dynamic routes all included.
N/A
Security No license required.
NOTE: DCC, SCC, FCS, IP Filter, and
authentication policies all included.
N/A
SNMP No license required. N/A
TABLE 70 License requirements and location name by feature (Continued)
Feature License Where license should be installed