HP StorageWorks 1606 HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.3.0a release notes (5697-0359 - Page 7

Optionally licensed software Optionally licensed features in Fabric OS 6.3.0 are as follows: • Ports on Demand-Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional ports through 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-Enables aggregation of 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 the 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 Multi-protocol Router Blade and 400 MP Router, this license key also includes the FC FastWrite (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 Multi-protocol Router Blade. • Fabric Watch-Monitors mission-critical switch operations, and now includes new Port Fencing capabilities. • FICON Management Server (also known as the control unit port [CUP])-Enables host control of switches in mainframe environments. • 16 Link Inter-chassis links (ICL 16 link)-Provide dedicated high-bandwidth links between two DC SAN Backbone Director chassis, without consuming valuable front-end 8-Gb ports. Each DC Backbone Director must have the ICL license installed in order to enable ICL connections (available on the DC Backbone Director only). • 8 Link Inter-chassis links (ICL 8 link)-This license activates all 8 links on ICL ports on a DC04 SAN Director chassis for connection of two DC04 directors, or half of the ICL bandwidth for each ICL port on the DC SAN Backbone Director platform by enabling only 8 of the 16 links available. This allows users to purchase half the bandwidth of DC SAN Backbone Director ICL ports initially, and then upgrade with an additional 8-link license to utilize the full ICL bandwidth. This license is also useful for environments in which you want to create ICL connections between a DC SAN Backbone Director and a DC04 SAN Director. (The DC04 SAN Director can support only 8 links on an ICL port.) This license is available on the DC04 SAN Director and DC SAN Backbone Director platforms only. It replaces the original ICL license for the DC04 SAN Director and is new for the DC SAN Backbone Director. • Adaptive Networking-Ensures high-priority connections and obtains the network resources necessary for optimum performance, even in congested environments. The 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 on a DC SAN Backbone Director, DC04 SAN Director, 1606 Extension SAN Switch, 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 Bseries Multi-protocol Router Blade or to use the 400 MP Router for FCR purposes, it also provides double the bandwidth for each FCR connection (when connected to another 8-Gb-capable port). • Encryption Performance Upgrade-This license provides additional encryption processing power. The Encryption Performance License enables full encryption processing power on the HP Storage- HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.3.0a release notes 7