Thank you both for confirming this.

What are folks on the list using as a 10gb top of rack switch with Netapp FAS? Cisco 5548? Anyone using Arista 7124sx with twinax?

----- Original Message ----- From: "tmac" tmacmd@gmail.com To: "Eduardo Rivera" Edrivera@ea.com Cc: "Dan Olson" dolson@mcs.anl.gov, toasters@teaparty.net Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:15:43 PM Subject: Re: FAS2240 Twinax Support

And NetApp has three different SFP+'s!! One for the X1107 One for the X1117 One for the FAS Heads with on-board 10-Gig

--tmac          Tim McCarthy      Principal Consultant

RedHat Certified Engineer    804006984323821 (RHEL4)    805007643429572 (RHEL5)

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Rivera, Eduardo Edrivera@ea.com wrote:

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

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We have been using a pair of Nexus 5010s to connect our filers up via 10GbE. So far they have been working quite well, especially once we updated the code on them

Regards,

Dan

Sent from my iPhone, please excuse typos.

On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:27 PM, "Rivera, Eduardo" Edrivera@ea.com wrote:

I have used Cisco 5548/5596 and Brocade VDX 6720s. Both have been pretty good switches so far. The Cisco ones support passive Twinax though which makes connectivity to the filers cheaper.

-Eduardo

-----Original Message----- From: Dan Olson [mailto:dolson@mcs.anl.gov] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 2:12 PM To: tmac Cc: toasters@teaparty.net; Rivera, Eduardo Subject: Re: FAS2240 Twinax Support

Thank you both for confirming this.

What are folks on the list using as a 10gb top of rack switch with Netapp FAS? Cisco 5548? Anyone using Arista 7124sx with twinax?

----- Original Message ----- From: "tmac" tmacmd@gmail.com To: "Eduardo Rivera" Edrivera@ea.com Cc: "Dan Olson" dolson@mcs.anl.gov, toasters@teaparty.net Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:15:43 PM Subject: Re: FAS2240 Twinax Support

And NetApp has three different SFP+'s!! One for the X1107 One for the X1117 One for the FAS Heads with on-board 10-Gig

--tmac Tim McCarthy Principal Consultant

RedHat Certified Engineer 804006984323821 (RHEL4) 805007643429572 (RHEL5)

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Rivera, Eduardo Edrivera@ea.com wrote:

...

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

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