Cisco Twinax Cables Compatibiltiy with EMC VNX/VNXe

[michaelgitonga]

Hi,

I would like to know about Cisco Twinax Cables Compatibiltiy with EMC VNX/VNXe series storage - for connectivity between UCS Fabric Interconnect and EMC VNX/VNXe.

Are the following Cisco Twinax Cables compatible with EMC's VNX and VNXe serie platforms:

• SFP-H10GB-CU1M= 1-m 10G SFP+ Twinax cable assembly, passive
  
• SFP-H10GB-CU3M= 3-m 10G SFP+ Twinax cable assembly, passive
  
• SFP-H10GB-CU5M= 5-m 10G SFP+ Twinax cable assembly, passive
  
• SFP-H10GB-ACU7M= 7-m 10G SFP+ Twinax cable assembly, active
  
• SFP-H10GB-ACU10M= 10-m 10G SFP+ Twinax cable assembly, active
  

Kindly advice. Thanks.

[Brian Pickering · Accepted solution]

From what I've seen on the EMC forums, the active cables are supported, passive ones are not.

[michaelgitonga]

Thank you Brian. Kindly paste the links to these EMC forums. Thanks.

[Brian Pickering · Accepted solution]

This discussion <https://community.emc.com/message/642136> points to this whitepaper <http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h8217-introduction-vnx-wp.pdf>.

[michaelgitonga]

Brian,

This was very helpful. Thank you very much.

[pieteryts]

Hi,

I'd like to confirm you, that passive assembly is supported. Haven't tried the actives one yet.

I'm using UCS-B200 M3, and EMC VNX 5300.

the EMC VNX5300 (Block Level) connected using 2 type of media. Copper (SFP-H10GB-CU5M= 5-m 10G SFP+ Twinax cable assembly, passive) and Fiber Channel 8 GB directly info Fabric Interconnect 6248 ports.

For old server the connection is via iSCSI 10GB Copper. and for UCS-B200 M3 is via FC 8GB.

All my configuration is running well.

Hope thats helped.

Thanks,

Pieter

[michaelgitonga]

Hi Pieter,

I believe that by mentioning UCS-B200 M3 you mean that the blade server UCS-B200 M3 is inside a Cisco UCS 5100 Blade Chassis and hence you are connecting a Cisco UCS 6100/6200 Fabric Interconnect to the EMC VNX 5300. Is that so? Kindly confirm. Thanks.

[pieteryts · Accepted solution]

Hi Michael,

yes. I'm using 5108 Chassis, and using two UCS-B200 M3. connected to UCS-FI6248 using 2 copper cable (10Gb).

and the VNX5300 connected using 2 copper cable (10Gb)  and 2 FC (8Gb) cable to FI6248.

Hope thats helped.

Thanks,

Pieter

[michaelgitonga]

Hi Pieter,

This has helped. Thank you very much.

Thanks,

Michael Kimani Gitonga.