Software License Records

The activate license key shall unlock a set of license records for use within the system. In Release 16.0, only Hardware Upgrade license records are distributed in the license keys. These can be used to upgrade the hardware capacity or the hardware functional level of a card or an XMA. These upgrades define a starting level and an upgraded level for the target assembly. Multiple instances of the same upgrade can be assigned to a system in the license key. The list of these records and the number in-use and available can be checked with the show licensing-entitlements command.

*A:bkvm20# show licensing entitlements

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License                              Available      In-Use       State
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MDA Upgrades
  cr1200g-cr1600g                            1           1        VALID
  cr1200g-er1200g                            1           0        VALID
  cr1600g-cr2400g                            1           0        VALID
  cr1600g-er1600g                            2           0        VALID
  cr2400g-er2400g                            1           0        VALID
  er1200g-er1600g                            4           2        VALID
  er1200g-he1200g                            1           0        VALID
  er1600g-er2400g                            1           0        VALID
  er1600g-he1600g                            1           0        VALID
  er2400g-he2400g                            1           0        VALID
  he1200g-he1600g                            1           0        VALID
  he1600g-he2400g                            1           0        VALID
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An upgrade can be assigned to a particular card or XMA using the upgrade command within the card or mda context. Multiple upgrades can be assigned to the same card or XMA if needed to gradually augment the base card. In the following example, four upgrades have been applied in sequence to the base level of cr1600g to bring the XMA from CR to ER then ER to HE then to increase capacity first from 1600 Gbps to 2400Gbps and then from 2400 Gbps to 2400 Gbps with aggregation to 3600 Gbps.

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MDA 1/1 detail
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Slot  Mda   Provisioned Type                            Admin     Operational
                Equipped Type (if different)            State     State
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1     1     s36-100gb-qsfp28:cr1600g                    up        provisioned
                (not equipped)

MDA Licensing Data
    Licensed Level                : he2400g+
    Description                   : 2.4T /w agg to 3.6T, 36p, High Scale Edge
                                    Routing
    Upgrade 1                     : cr1600g-er1600g
    Upgrade 2                     : er1600g-he1600g
    Upgrade 3                     : he1600g-he2400g
    Upgrade 4                     : any2400g-2400g+