Interconnect licenses

Certain interconnects require an HPE Synergy FC Upgrade license assigned to the bay in which they are installed in order to use Fibre Channel uplinks.

Purchasing an interconnect with factory-integrated (embedded) licenses provides the best licensing experience because the HPE Synergy FC Upgrade licenses are delivered on the hardware and HPE OneView automatically adds the licenses to the license pool on discovery of the hardware.

If you purchase nonintegrated licenses, you must activate and register the licenses using the Hewlett Packard Enterprise licensing portal at https://myenterpriselicense.hpe.com. After you register your licenses, you add the license keys to the appliance