Can we purchase SFP ports to connect Cisco 2960XR to our server with 10GB NIC?

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Our Cisco 2960-XR comes with 2 fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ uplinks. Can we purchase SFP ports to connect to out server with 10GB NIC? 

I search online and someone says: “The uplink port on the switch is usually a higher-speed port used to connect smaller local network to a larger network or connect to another higher-speed switches in the topology”.  My question is if we can use the SFP+ uplink ports as normal ports to connect our new SQL server.

[balaji.bandi · Accepted solution]

If Server has SFP NIC card you can connect them with 10GB SFP optic on switch side.

if server not support SFP based NIC card, only option for you 1G X 2qty port  - Port-channel  2GB you can do.

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

The uplink ports on the 2960-XR series switches are fixed, meaning if they are SFP+, they only support 10Gig optics and not 1Gig optics.

HTH

[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

Make sure you enable QoS on those ports -- because you will really, really need it.