Licenses for a fabric interconnect of one generation can be transferred between other fabric interconnects in the same generation but not between different generations.
Ucs fabric interconnect license.
Ucs licenses are generated on the generation of ucs fabric interconnects in use.
Fabric interconnect port licenses.
Ucs 6400 series only fabric int 1 port 10 25 gbps fc port license.
The eight default licenses that come with a 6200 series fabric interconnect expansion module can be used to enable ports on the base module but will travel.
Of these 8 ports are pre licensed and up to 8 additional ports can be licensed using ucs lic 10ge per port.
At a minimum each fabric interconnect ships with the following counted licenses pre installed.
Navigate to ucs manager and proceed with selecting the equipment fabric interconnect a and fabric interconnect b tab.
We need to get the serial numbers of both the fabric interconnects you want add the licenses to.
1st generation 6100 series fabric interconnects ucs 6120xp ucs 6140xp.
The serial numbers of both the fabric interconnects will be present here which is needed to add the licenses to.
The former cisco fabric interconnect models ucs 6120xp has 8 ports pre installed licenses and the ucs 6140xp has 16 pre installed licenses.
The images below show where the serial id number is located in this view.
This can be acquired by logging into your ucs m domain going to the equipment tab then clicking fabric interconnect a and fabric interconnect b.
Port licenses for each cisco ucs fabric interconnect are factory installed and shipped with the hardware.
Ucs 64108 2ru fi with no psu with 108 ports and includes 36x10 25 gbps and 4x40 100 gbps port licenses.
The images below show where the serial id number is located in this view.