Brocade VDX 6470 T - Can't remove Interface from Licenses

[roblake]

Good Morning Team,

My Issue:

• I have 2x Brocade 6470T Switches stacked.
• Each switch is licenses with 8x 10Gbe ports licensed

rbridge-id: 11
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
10G Port Upgrade license
Feature name:PORT_10G_UPGRADE
License is valid
Capacity: 8

• I have two ports I am try to remove from from the assigned license.

#sh dpod
10G ports not assigned to a license:
11/0/46

Example of sh interface status of 11/0/46 for example
switch# show interface tengigabitethernet 11/0/46
TenGigabitEthernet 11/0/46 is admin down, line protocol is down (no 10G Port Upgrade license)
Hardware is Ethernet, address is 50eb.1aae.5c8c
Current address is 50eb.1aae.5c8c
Fixed Copper RJ45 Media Present
Description: DMZ-Trunk-FW
Interface index (ifindex) is 47446343680
MTU 2500 bytes
LineSpeed Actual : Nil
LineSpeed Configured : 1000 Mbit, Duplex: Full
Priority Tag disable
Last clearing of show interface counters: 165w4d20h
Queueing strategy: fifo
Receive Statistics:
0 packets, 0 bytes
Unicasts: 0, Multicasts: 0, Broadcasts: 0
64-byte pkts: 0, Over 64-byte pkts: 0, Over 127-byte pkts: 0
Over 255-byte pkts: 0, Over 511-byte pkts: 0, Over 1023-byte pkts: 0
Over 1518-byte pkts(Jumbo): 0
Runts: 0, Jabbers: 0, CRC: 0, Overruns: 0
Errors: 0, Discards: 0
Transmit Statistics:
0 packets, 0 bytes
Unicasts: 0, Multicasts: 0, Broadcasts: 0
Underruns: 0
Errors: 0, Discards: 0
Rate info:
Input 0.000000 Mbits/sec, 0 packets/sec, 0.00% of line-rate
Output 0.000000 Mbits/sec, 0 packets/sec, 0.00% of line-rate
Time since last interface status change: 165w4d20h

What is the switch firmware?
Hardware Rev : 137.4

What I have done:

Tried to release a port from a POD set using the following

Releasing a port from a POD set:

Once a port has been assigned to a Dynamic POD license port set, it remains licensed (or "reserved") untilthe userremoves the port from the port set.To remove a port from the port set,release the port with the dpod release command. Releasing a port removes it from the Dynamic POD license port set; the port appears as unassigned until it comes back online.

switch# configure terminal
Entering configuration mode terminal
switch(config)# interface 1/0/10
switch(conf-if-te-1/0/10)# shutdown
switch(conf-if-te-1/0/10)# exit
switch(config)# dpod 1/0/10 release
switch(config-dpod-1/0/10)# exit


Thank you for taking the time to read my question. Also, I hope you have a fantastic day.

[Michael_Morey]

Good Morning,

If I understand you correctly, your goal is to remove this port (11/0/46) from using your installed 10G port license. From the output you have provided, the port is not associated to any license, so you have released it properly. There is a lot of information in "show dpod" here is an example from my lab:

Here you can see I have no 10G license installed, so therefore I only have use of 24x10G ports

VDX1# show dpod
rbridge-id: 1
48 10G ports are available in this switch
4 40G ports are available in this switch
No 10G Port Upgrade license is installed
No 40G Port Upgrade license is installed
Dynamic POD method is in use

24 10G port assignments are provisioned for use in this switch: -- Total number of ports available
24 10G port assignments are provisioned by the base switch license -- Base 24 ports included by default
6 10G ports are assigned to installed licenses: -- Total number of ports assigned to all licenses
6 10G ports are assigned to the base switch license -- Number of ports assigned to base (up to 24)
10G ports assigned to the base switch license:
1/0/1, 1/0/2, 1/0/3, 1/0/4, 1/0/5, 1/0/6
10G ports assigned to the 10G Port Upgrade license: -- No ports assigned as I have no upgrade installed
None
10G ports not assigned to a license: -- All other ports not in use or unlicensed
1/0/7, 1/0/8, 1/0/9, 1/0/10, 1/0/11, 1/0/12, 1/0/13, 1/0/14, 1/0/15, 1/0/16
1/0/17, 1/0/18, 1/0/19, 1/0/20, 1/0/21, 1/0/22, 1/0/23, 1/0/24, 1/0/25, 1/0/26
1/0/27, 1/0/28, 1/0/29, 1/0/30, 1/0/31, 1/0/32, 1/0/33, 1/0/34, 1/0/35, 1/0/36
1/0/37, 1/0/38, 1/0/39, 1/0/40, 1/0/41, 1/0/42, 1/0/43, 1/0/44, 1/0/45, 1/0/46
1/0/47, 1/0/48
18 license reservations are still available for use by unassigned ports

With the above information, and looking at the output you provided:

10G ports not assigned to a license:
11/0/46

This port is not assigned to any license. If you are trying to bring another port up, please check your entire "show dpod" output to confirm the number of ports you have assigned to all of your licenses as well as the number of licenses you have available for use.

I hope this answers your question and helps address your issue.

Thank you,

Mike Morey
Principal Technical Support Engineer