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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 475
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10G licensing
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Assigning a license to a slot
Use the following procedure to assign a licence to a slot:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions, or an account with
OM permissions in the license class of RBAC commands.
2. Enter the licenseSlotCfg -add command to add the license to the appropriate slot.
Removing a license from a slot
Use the following procedure to remove a slot-based license from a blade slot:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions, or an account with
OM permissions in the license class of RBAC commands.
2. Deconfigure the application that uses the licensed feature on the blade slot.
3. Enter the licenseSlotCfg -remove command to remove the license from the slot.
10G licensing
The 10 Gbps FCIP/Fibre Channel license (10G license) enables the following features:
• 10 Gbps access on the 16 Gbps FC ports on Brocade 6510 or 6520 switches, and FC16-32
and FC16-48 port blades.
• The two 10-GbE ports on the FX8-24 extension blade.
This 10G license is applied as a slot-based license on the FC16-32 and FC16-48 port blades and
on the FX8-24 extension blade; generic rules for adding slot-based licenses apply, as described in
“Slot-based licensing” on page 474. When this license is applied to a Brocade 6510 or 6520
switch, it is applied to the whole chassis.
Whether you have a bladed (DCX, DCX-4S, DCX 8510-8, or DCX 8510-4) platform or nonbladed
(Brocade 6510, 6520) switch, you add the 10G license to the chassis using the LicenseAdd
command, as for any license.
For the bladed platforms, you can either allow automatic license assignment, or choose the blades
you want the licences assigned to manually, as for any slot-based license. Automatic assignment is
done sequentially by slot number, beginning with the lowest numbered slot with an enabled blade
that supports this feature (FX8-24, FC16-32, or FC16-48 blade), and that does not already have the
license applied. If the automatic license assignment does not match your needs, you can use the
licenseSlotCfg
--remove and licenseSlotCfg --add commands to remove the license manually from
a slot and assign it to a different slot with an FX8-24, FC16-32, or FC16-48 blade.
The same multiple slot-based 10G license can be applied to a mixture of 16 Gbps blades and
FX8-24 blades. For example, if you have a 10G license for two-slot capacity, and you have an
FX8-24 blade in one slot and an FC16-48 blade in a second slot, then the same license can
activate the 10GE ports on the FX8-24 blade and enable 10 Gbps operation on the 10G FC ports
on the FC16-48 blade.