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Slot-based licensing
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Slot-based licensing
Slot-based licensing is used on the Brocade DCX and DCX 8510 Backbone families to support the
FX8-24 blade, and on the Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone family to support the 16 Gbps FC port
blades (FC16-24 and FC16-48). License capacity is equal to the number of slots. These licenses
allow you to select the slots that the license will enable up to the capacity purchased and to
increase the capacity without disrupting slots that already have licensed features running. Each
slot-based license key is for a single feature.
Features utilizing slot-based licenses on the FX8-24 blade include:
• 10Gb FCIP/Fibre channel
• Advanced Extension
• Advanced FICON Acceleration
NOTE
The 10 GbE feature on the FX8-24 blade and the 10 Gbps FC feature on the 16 Gbps FC blades are
both enabled by the same 10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel license (10G license). This license can also
enable the 10 Gbps FC feature on a Brocade 6510 or 6520 switch as a chassis-based license.
Any unassigned slot-based license will be automatically assigned to applicable blades that are
detected in the chassis when the license is installed. If you have more applicable blades than
available license capacity, then you can manually assign or re-assign the licenses as necessary.
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.
Use the following procedure to activate a slot-based licensed feature:
1. Install a slot-based license on the platform with sufficient slot count for the number of slots
upon which you plan to activate the feature.
2. Configure slots so that the licensed feature is assigned to slots. No more slots can be
configured than specified in the license.
3. Configure the application that uses the licensed feature on the blade in the slot. This operation
verifies that the previous two steps have been successfully completed.
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 feature
name in the earlier release now appears as “10 Gigabit FCIP/Fibre Channel (FTR_10G) license.”