Two Aruba 2930F switches (JL256A, firmware 16.05.0003) were to be stacked with VSF over an HPE DAC. With allow-unsupported-transceiver enabled the DAC passed traffic on normal ports, but as soon as the ports were made VSF member links the stack would not form. Replacing the DAC with supported 10G…
On Aruba 2930F switches (JL255A) the poster installed new J9151E 10G SFP+ transceivers (part 1990-4727) that the transceiver guide lists as supported, but every unit was reported as Unsupported Transceiver (SelfTest Err#128000) and show tech transceivers showed ?? for type and serial. J9281D DACs…
With an Aruba 2930F connected to a server through a Stornet-branded J9283D-SN passive 3 m SFP+ DAC, port 50 dropped the link immediately after it came up and port 52 flapped with the log message FFI : Port: 52 Excessive link state transitions. The same cable worked on ports 49 and 51, and fibre…