Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch (Upgrade 2)

Part Number: 88Y6386

With Brocade’s Dynamic Ports on Demand (DPOD) feature, ports are licensed in one of two methods: as they come online or as selected by the administrator. With the 16 Gb SAN switch, the first 12 ports reporting (on a first-come, first-served basis) on boot-up are assigned licenses. These 12 ports can be any combination of external or internal Fibre Channel (FC) ports.

After all port licenses have been assigned, you can manually move those licenses from one port to another. Because this is dynamic, no defined ports are reserved except ports 0 and 29. The 24-port 16 Gb SAN switches have the same behavior; the only difference is the number of ports, which is 24.