An HPE FlexFabric 5950 48SFP28 8QSFP28 (JH402A) always downgrades an HPE JH419A 100G QSFP28 LC SWDM4 transceiver to 40G and never brings it up at full speed. Why?
Standing up a small traffic-test bench next to the production fabric, and the tester ports will not come up over copper at all. HP 5900 40G switch, JC772A HP JG328A 40G QSFP+ direct attach cable Ixia Xcellon-Multis QSFP 40/10GE load module Spirent TestCenter 40G module, tried as a second opinion HP…
Second hand HPE 5130 for the rack at home, and it arrived with four HPE JD092B X130 10G SFP+ SR modules in the box. I bought new OM4 LC patch cords, wired one SFP+ port to the 10G card in the server, and got absolutely nothing. HPE FlexNetwork 5130 24G PoE+ 4SFP+ EI (JG936A) 4x HPE JD092B X130 10G…
Several pairs of 3COM 2928 switches (JE007A-like, HP 1910-24G family) were linked over J9281B SFP+ DACs. After upgrading from 5.20 1108P01 to 5.20 1519P03 the links no longer came up. Before the update display transceiver interface showed STACKSFP / Tyco Electronics and simple LINK UPDOWN events…
An HP 5900AF-48XG-4QSFP+ (Comware 7.1.045 R2311P01) logged OPTMOD/4/PHONYMODULE: This is not a supported transceiver for this platform for two 10G SR SFP+ modules; display transceiver interface identified them as Avago and JDSU 10GBASESRSFP with DDM. The poster wanted to know which SFP+ to buy and…
Four HP A5500-HI switches in an IRF stack logged unsupported transceiver messages for six rear-module (JD368B) ports that were cabled with HP J9281B SFP+ DACs to ProLiant Gen8 servers with 530SFP+ NICs. display transceiver interface shwed Transceiver Type STACKSFPPLUS, Connector COPPER, Vendor Name…
