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Type of optical breakout cable for front-end networking of Isilon H500 nodes
I have 4 x Isilon H500 Gen 6 nodes incoming. According to the BOM, the Front End networking optics are listed as "Transceivers/Optic/SFP+/SR/10GbE/2 GEN6" (part number: 851-0296).
Looking to connect the Front End to existing Cisco Nexus 2348TQ switches. These are 48 port 10GB Base-T switches (I know the Base-T ports can not be used) with 6 x 40GB QSFP ports. I'm looking to use a breakout cable (40GB QSFP to 4 x 10GB SFP+) to connect the Isilon nodes to the QSFP ports on these Cisco switches.
Need to know:
1). Does it matter if I use a DellEMC or Cisco Cable?
2). Type/Model of cable is needed? From a DellEMC perspective, it looks like i would need something like an AOC-QSFP-4SFP-10G-xM (10M or 30M). From a Cisco perspective, it looks like I would need something like a QSFP-4X10G-AOC (1M, 2M, 3M, 5M, 7M or 10M).
Any help here is much appreciated as apparently I can not open an SR with DellEMC with out calling and speaking to Support (can't create SR online, or through live chat). Which I supposed I will do if it comes to it.
Thanks!
DELL-Sam L
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March 10th, 2020 12:00
Hello jdrabick,
I checked and I am not able to find the part# for the cables. I would contact either your sales rep or tech support and they should be able to provide you with the part# for the cables that you are needing.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.