Enabling a third-party transceiver on HPE FlexFabric 5900AF: no CLI switch, ask the supplier to code it for HP 5900
A FlexFabric 5900AF running Comware 7.1.035 R2208P01 reported a third-party transceiver as not supported when inserted, while the same class of modules worked in a FlexFabric 7904 on 7.1.045. The poster asked whether support could be enabled by command and whether the Comware versin mattered. Hardware involved: HPE FlexFabric 5900AF, HPE FlexFabric 7904, third-party SFP+.
- Hardware: HPE FlexFabric 5900AF, HPE FlexFabric 7904
- Transceivers: third-party SFP+
- Form factor: SFP+
Symptoms / messages:
transceiver reported as not supported
works on 7904 but not on 5900AF
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Comments 3
There is no enable command on Comware; unsupported modules either work out of the box or not, and transceiver phony-alarm-disable only silences the logs. The switch software (2013 build) should be updated to the current R2432 branch.
Tell the third-party vendor before purchase that the module is for an HP 5900 so they code it with the correct HP part number; if they cannot, do not buy it.
With thousands of deployed optics under my belt, the only compatibility failures I've hit were deliberate vendor locks, plus a few cases of counterfeit Cisco optics and genuine HP SR modules failing after 3-5 years.