Upgrade And Downgrade Considerations; Assigning A License To A Slot; Removing A License From A Slot; 10G Licensing - HP SN3000B Administrator's Manual

Once a license is assigned to a slot, whether it has been automatically assigned or manually
assigned, the assignment will remain until you manually reassign the license to another slot. This
design allows for various maintenance operations to occur without having the license move around
to other slots.
For a slot-based licensed feature to be active, follow these steps:
1. Install a slot-based license on the platform with sufficient slot count for the number of slots
2. Configure slots so that the licensed feature is assigned to slots. No more slots can be
3. Configure the application that uses the licensed feature on the blade in the slot. This operation
Once these steps are complete, the feature will work on the blade.

Upgrade and downgrade considerations

When a slot-based license is present on the switch, firmware downgrade to pre-Fabric OS v6.3.0 is
allowed, but the slot-based features that were licensed will not be functional.
On upgrade to Fabric OS v7.0.0 or later, any slot-based license that displayed the 10-GbE operation
name in the earlier release displays instead as "10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel (FTR_10G) license."

Assigning a license to a slot

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions, or an account with
2. Enter the licenseSlotCfg -add command to add the license to the appropriate slot.

Removing a license from a slot

To remove a slot-based license from a blade slot, follow these steps.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions, or an account with
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:
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upon which you plan to activate the feature.
configured than specified in the license.
verifies that the previous two steps have been successfully completed.
OM permissions in the license class of RBAC commands.
OM permissions in the license class of RBAC commands.
10 Gbps access on the 16 Gbps FC ports on the Brocade 6510 switch, and the FC16-32 and
FC16-48 port blades.
The two 10-GbE ports on the FX8-24 extension blade. Before the Fabric OS v7.0.0 release, this
feature was enabled by the 10-GbE license.
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