About interconnect licensing

Certain interconnects need an interconnect license assigned to the bay in which they are installed in order to use Fibre Channel uplinks and/or 50Gb downlinks. For unmanaged interconnects, Fibre Channel capabilities are disabled if you do not have sufficient licenses.

You can purchase interconnects with licenses already installed, or you can purchase standalone licenses separately and manually add them to the Synergy Composer from the Licenses section of the Settings screen. You can also manually add licenses to HPE OneView using REST APIs.

Interconnect licensing is designed so that you set your licensing intent to the bay that contains the interconnect, not to the interconnect itself. This enables you to swap interconnects of the same model into the bay without making any changes to licensing.

More information

License type: Interconnect