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Storage/SAN admin from Almaty. Mostly Dell and HPE.
Speccing the uplinks for an M4300-96X before the order goes in, and the 40G side has turned into a dead end that I would like to sanity check with people who have actually built one. NETGEAR M4300-96X chassis APM402XL port card for the 40G QSFP+ ports planned: two 40GBASE-X runs to the neighbouring…
We are reusing a pile of 10G optics on a whitebox switch running SONiC, so a few QSFP28 cages are fitted with QSA-style adapters (10GTek QSA-100A) carrying plain 10G SFP+ modules. Mechanically and electrically this is fine. The management side is where it falls apart. switch: 1U whitebox, SONiC…
I keep a small pool of shared modules: the nodes are scattered around the city, and I have to recode SFP modules for almost every switch that isn't mine. With gigabit modules the routine has been solid for a long time, but a 10G one just stopped me cold. What's on the bench: a programmer with an…