Ucs licenses are generated on the generation of ucs fabric interconnects in use.
Ucs fabric interconnect license.
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.
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.
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.
Port licenses for each cisco ucs fabric interconnect are factory installed and shipped with the hardware.
Ucs 6400 series only fabric int 1 port 10 25 gbps fc port license.
We need to get the serial numbers of both the fabric interconnects you want add the licenses to.
Fabric interconnect port licenses.
Of these 8 ports are pre licensed and up to 8 additional ports can be licensed using ucs lic 10ge per port.
Licenses for a fabric interconnect of one generation can be transferred between other fabric interconnects in the same generation but not between different generations.
1st generation 6100 series fabric interconnects ucs 6120xp ucs 6140xp.
The former cisco fabric interconnect models ucs 6120xp has 8 ports pre installed licenses and the ucs 6140xp has 16 pre installed licenses.
Expansion module the ucs fi e16up 16 port unified expansion module has 16 physical ports.
Navigate to ucs manager and proceed with selecting the equipment fabric interconnect a and fabric interconnect b tab.
The serial numbers of both the fabric interconnects will be present here which is needed to add the licenses to.
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.