Lincensing on MDS9120

[tarun.pahuja]

Folks,

I am thinking about buying 2 9210 MDS series switches for home lab. I checked the list price on them and it is around $14,000 each.

I wanted to find out if i could use all the features that this switch has to over (IVR, Read-only Zones, etc) in the home lab?? or would i have to unlock these features by entering a special license key.

Also, does anyone know what license would the switch come with by default?

Many thanks

[tblancha]

IVR and read-only zoning are not part of the base package and are licensed features. The following is a data sheet on the enterprise license:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6029/products_data_sheet09186a00801ca6ac.html

[mrfrase]

Depending on your budget, I would consider one of your switches being a 9216i, it has 2 GiGE ports for iSCSI & FCIP. You cannot do FCIP to the same MDS but later you can invest in a second 9216i to do FCIP. You at least have iSCSI with 1 9216i.

[tarun.pahuja]

I would have to get a license file to unlock IVR, i was hoping to see how it works using standart package. This is for home use only. Is it possible? or the feature has to be unlocked using a license key?

Thanks

[tblancha]

The feature sets have a 120 day grace period. So you can turn it on ~4 months. After that, the features will be disabled.