Ucs licenses are generated on the generation of ucs fabric interconnects in use.
Ucs fabric interconnect license.
The images below show where the serial id number is located in this view.
The serial numbers of both the fabric interconnects will be present here which is needed to add the licenses to.
Of these 8 ports are pre licensed and up to 8 additional ports can be licensed using ucs lic 10ge per port.
2nd generation 6200 series fabric interconnects ucs fi 6248up ucs fi 6296up.
Ucs 64108 2ru fi with no psu with 108 ports and includes 36x10 25 gbps and 4x40 100 gbps port licenses.
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.
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.
1st generation 6100 series fabric interconnects ucs 6120xp ucs 6140xp.
Cisco ucs 6120xp fabric interconnect pre installed licenses for the first eight ethernet ports enabled in cisco ucs manager and any fibre channel ports on expansion modules.
Navigate to ucs manager and proceed with selecting the equipment fabric interconnect a and fabric interconnect b tab.
Expansion module the ucs fi e16up 16 port unified expansion module has 16 physical ports.
Ucs 6400 series only fabric int 1 port 10 25 gbps fc port license.
Port licenses for each cisco ucs fabric interconnect are factory installed and shipped with the hardware.
The images below show where the serial id number is located in this view.
The former cisco fabric interconnect models ucs 6120xp has 8 ports pre installed licenses and the ucs 6140xp has 16 pre installed licenses.
Licenses for a fabric interconnect of one generation can be transferred between other fabric interconnects in the same generation but not between different generations.