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Chapter 3
Obtaining and Installing Licenses
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m .
Table 3-1
Feature License
Fabric Manager Server package
(FM_SERVER_PKG)
Storage Services Enabler package
(STORAGE_SERVICES_ENABLER_PKG)
Licensing High Availability
As with other Cisco MDS SAN-OS features, the licensing feature also maintains the following high
availability standards for all switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family:
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•
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Directors in the Cisco MDS 9500 Series have the following additional high availability features:
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OL-6973-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
Feature-Based Licenses (continued)
Installing any license in any switch is a nondisruptive process.
Installing a license automatically saves a copy of permanent licenses to the chassis in all switches.
Enabling a license feature without a license key starts a counter on the grace period. You then have
60 days (for earlier versions of SAN-OS 1.3(3c) or earlier) or 120 days (for SAN-OS 1.3(4) or later)
to install the appropriate license keys or disable the use of that feature. If at the end of the 60 day or
120 day grace period the switch does not have a valid license key for the feature, the feature is
automatically disabled by the switch.
The license software runs on both supervisor modules and provides failover protection.
Features
Multiple physical fabric management
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Centralized fabric discovery services
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Continuous MDS health and event monitoring
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Long term historical Fibre Channel performance
•
monitoring
Performance reports and charting for hotspot
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analysis
Web-based operational view
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Threshold monitoring
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Fabric Manager Web Client for operational view
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Performance thresholds
Provides the underlying infrastructure and
•
programmatic interface to enable network-based
storage applications when used with the Advanced
Services Modules (ASMs) and Storage Services
Modules (SSMs).
The network-based storage applications running on
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the ASM and SSM that require the SSE license are
as follows:
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Networks
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The intelligent fabric applications running on the
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SSM that require the SSE license are as follows:
SANTap
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Network-Accelerated Serverless Backup
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(NASB)
Third-party partner applications
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide
Licensing High Availability
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