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Dynamic Ports on Demand Licensing
● Dynamic Ports on Demand overview.............................................................................. 25
● Managing automatic POD port assignments...................................................................26
● Mapping port assignments to a POD port set................................................................. 26
● Activating the Dynamic POD feature ..............................................................................27
● Adding a Dynamic POD license...................................................................................... 28
● Displaying the Dynamic POD assignments.....................................................................28
● Overriding Dynamic POD assignments...........................................................................29
Dynamic Ports on Demand overview
Dynamic Ports on Demand (POD) provides a flexible mechanism for allocating port licenses that you
can purchase to extend the base functionality of the Brocade VDX 6720 and VDX 6730 switches. The
additional ports are enabled after you install the appropriate license keys. The Dynamic POD feature
assigns port licenses based on your connectivity choices. Any port on the switch can claim a free
assignment from the pool of available POD licenses.
NOTE
Dynamic POD licenses are not supported on the Brocade VDX 6710, VDX 8770, and on the FC ports
on the Brocade VDX 6730. When adding a Dynamic POD license to a platform that does not support
Dynamic POD, you will be allowed to add the license, but the license display will show that the Dynamic
POD license is not supported on the platform.
In a Dynamic POD system, each port can be associated with one of three port sets:
• Base port set — Ports that can be enabled without any POD license.
• Single POD license port set — Ports that are assigned first and associated with the existence of a
single POD license.
• Double POD license port set — Ports that are assigned after the single POD port set is full and are
therefore associated with the double POD license.
NOTE
The 10 GbE and 40 GbE Port Upgrade licenses are supported using a base port set plus the ports that
are available as specified by the port capacity in the respective port upgrade. These licenses are
supported only on the Brocade VDX 6740 and VDX 6740T switches.
NOTE
Licenses are based on the license ID and are not interchangeable between units. For example, if you
bought a single POD license for a Brocade VDX 6720-24, you cannot use that license on another
Brocade VDX 6720-24, on a Brocade VDX 6720-60, or on a Brocade VDX 6730-76.
You can purchase the Brocade VDX 6720 and VDX 6730 switches with the port options listed in the
following table. You can activate unlicensed ports up to the maximum supported per switch by
purchasing and installing additional POD licenses.
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