Optionally Licensed Software - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Release Note

Ports connected to ports with area swapped
ICLs
Slave ports in trunk groups
Long-distance ports
Ports connected to a logical switch and base switch (Fabric OS 6.2.x only), if VF is enabled

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 en-
hanced 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 re-
sources. This license includes the Top Talkers feature.
High-Performance Extension over FCIP/FC (formerly known as FC-IP Services)—For the HP Storage-
Works 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 Dir-
ector/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.
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