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Optionally licensed software
The following are optionally licensed features in Fabric OS 6.2.x:
Ports on Demand—Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional
ports via a license key upgrade (applies to select switch models).
Extended Fabrics—Provides greater than 10 km of switched fabric connectivity at full bandwidth
over long distances. (Depending on the platform, the distance can be up to 3,000 km.)
ISL Trunking—Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one logical link for
enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. It also includes Access Gateway ISL
Trunking on the products that support Access Gateway deployment.
Advanced Performance Monitoring—Enables performance monitoring of networked storage
resources. This license includes the Top Talkers feature.
High-Performance Extension over FCIP/FC (formerly known as FC-IP Services)—For the HP
StorageWorks B-series MP Router blade and 400 MP Router, this license key also includes
the FC Fast Write (FCFW) feature and IPsec capabilities.
Accelerator for FICON license—Enables unique FICON emulation support for IBM's Global
Mirror (formerly XRC) application (including Hitachi Data Systems HXRC and EMC's XRC) as
well as tape pipelining for all FICON tape and virtual tape systems to significantly improve
XRC and tape backup/recovery performance over virtually unlimited distance for the 400 MP
Router and B-series MP Router blade.
Fabric Watch—Monitors mission-critical switch operations, and now includes new Port Fencing
capabilities.
FICON Management Server (also known as CUP)—Enables host control of switches in mainframe
environments.
ICLs—Provide dedicated high-bandwidth links between two DC SAN Backbone Director or
DC04 SAN Director chassis, without consuming valuable front-end 8-Gb ports. Each DC
Backbone Director/DC04 SAN Director must have the ICL license installed in order to enable
the ICL connections (available on the DC Backbone Director/DC04 SAN Director only).
Adaptive Networking—Allows a user to ensure high priority connections and obtain the
network resources necessary for optimum performance, even in congested environments. The
quality of service (QoS) SID/DID Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting features are the first
components of this license, and are available on all 8-Gb platforms.
Integrated Routing license—Allows ports in an HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director,
HP StorageWorks DC04 SAN Director, HP StorageWorks 8/80 SAN Switch, or HP
StorageWorks 8/40 SAN Switch to be configured as EX_Ports, supporting FCR. This eliminates
the need to add a B-series MP Router blade or use the 400 MP Router for FCR purposes, and
also provides double the bandwidth for each FCR connection (when connected to another
8-Gb-capable port).
Server Application Optimization license (introduced with Fabric OS 6.2)—When deployed
with server adapters, 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 data center infrastructure.
Included licensed software
The Enhanced Group Management license is included with all HP 8-Gb switches. Enhanced Group
Management enables full management of the device in a data center fabric with increased element
management functionality and management task aggregation throughout the environment. This
license is used in conjunction with DCFM application software.
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