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Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Software License Support: Optionally Licensed Software
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Advanced Extension — This license enables two advanced extension features: FCIP Trunking and
Adaptive Rate Limiting. The FCIP Trunking feature allows multiple IP source and destination
address pairs (defined as FCIP Circuits) via multiple 1 GbE or 10 GbE interfaces to provide a high
bandwidth FCIP tunnel and failover resiliency. In addition, each FCIP circuit supports four 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 utilization of
the available network bandwidth without impacting throughput performance under high traffic
load. This license is available on the DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 for the FX8-24 on an individual slot
basis.
10GbE FCIP/10G Fibre Channel — This license enables the two 10GbE ports on the FX8-24 and/or
the 10G FC capability on FC16-xx blade ports supported on DCX 8510 platforms except for the
FC16-64 blade. On the Brocade 6510, Brocade 6520 this license enables 10G FC ports. This license
is not applicable to the Brocade 7840, Brocade G620, or Brocade X6 platforms.
On FX8-24:
With this license installed and assigned to a slot with an FX8-24 blade, two additional operating
modes (in addition to 10x1GbE ports mode) can be selected:
• 10x1GbE ports and 1x10GbE port, or
• 2x10GbE ports
On FC16-xx:
• Enables 10G FC capability on an FC16-xx blade in a slot that has this license.
On Brocade 6510, Brocade 6520:
• Enables 10G FC capability on Brocade 6510 and Brocade 6520 switches.
This license is available on the DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4 on an individual slot basis.
Advanced FICON Acceleration — This licensed feature uses 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
acknowledgement sequences. This license is available on the Brocade 7840 and the DCX 8510-8
and DCX 8510-4 for the FX8-24 on an individual slot basis.
ICL POD License — This license activates ICL ports on DCX 8510 or X6 platform core blades. An ICL
license must be installed on the director platforms at both ends of the ICL connection.
On Brocade DCX 8510:
An ICL 1st POD license only enables half of the ICL ports on CR16-8 core blades of DCX 8510-8 or
all of the ICL ports on CR16-4 core blades on DCX 8510-4. An ICL 2nd POD license enables all ICL
ports on CR16-8 core blades on a DCX 8510-8 platform. (The ICL 2nd POD license does not apply
to the DCX 8510-4.)
On Brocade X6:
Each ICL POD license contains a capacity to activate certain number of QSFP ports. Capacity in
the license allows incremental links starting with lowest QSFP port number on the core blades.
Capacity applies across both core blades if present. That is, capacity of 4 allows 4 links on each
core blade on the first QSFP (core blade QSFP number 0). For X6-8, each license has a capacity of
32 links, which activates 16 QSFP ports across both core blades. For X6-4, each license has a