Brocade VDX 6740 Hardware Reference Manual (Supporting VDX 6740, VDX 6740T, and VDX 6740T-1G) - Manual (Page 16)

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Brocade VDX 6740 overview
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• CLI management utilities on Network OS v4.1.0
• Out-of-band management
• sFlow
• TRILL Operations, Administration, and Management (OAM)
Licensing
• The VCS Fabric license to enable Ethernet fabric functionality is enabled by default.
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) license
For the Brocade VDX 6740T-1G, you can only use this license after purchasing at least one 10G
Port Upgrade licence.
• 10G Port Upgrade:
- For Brocade VDX 6740 and Brocade VDX 6740T, this adds 10 GbE ports in increments of
eight ports (8, 16, 24) per license.
- For Brocade VDX 6740T-1G, this upgrades existing 1 GbE ports to 1/10 GbE operation in
increments of 16 ports (16, 32, 48) per license.
- Removal of a port reservation provisioned by this license is blocked if the port is in a
configuration not allowed on 1 GbE port, such as Brocade Trunking or FCoE.
• 40G Port Upgrade:
- For Brocade VDX 6740 and Brocade VDX 6740T, this is available in two-port increments
per license to provide four total ports.
- For Brocade VDX 6740T-1G, since the switch ships with two 40GbE ports, the license is
available in a single two-port increment to provide four total ports.
• 10G and 40G Port Upgrade:
- Removal of a 10G or 40G Port Upgrade license requires port reservations for non-base
ports provisioned by the license to be released first.
For more information on licensing, refer to the Network OS Software Licensing Guide.
NOTE
To upgrade 1 Gbps port speed to 10 Gbps on the Brocade VDX 6740T-1G when installing the 10G
Port Upgrade License, refer to
“Upgrading port speeds on the Brocade VDX 6740T-1G” on page 21.