I can tell you that my experience plugging in FAS6280s into Brocade VDX 6720s taught me that all Brocade Twinax cables (even the short ones) are active Twinax and not supported by NetApp. If you plug them in, they will work but you will get a nasty error message on /etc/messages saying that it is not supported. So unfortunately, you will need to use SFP+ optics.
-Eduardo
-----Original Message----- From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Dan Olson Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:42 PM To: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: FAS2240 Twinax Support
Hi All,
We're currently in the specification phase of a project using a FAS2240 with 4x 10gbE ports.
I'm trying to figure out if the FAS2240 supports "active" twinax from a Brocade VDX 6720.
The Brocade ethernet switches seem to be relatively strange that twinax at <5M is active, usually it is only long twinax runs that require that.
Anyone out there have a FAS2240 working with a Brocade switch via twinax? _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters@teaparty.net http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters