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Brocade Gen7 64G San Switch SFP-DD ports
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Nezih Boyacioglu
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Wed September 21, 2022 02:04 PM
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I spent a few hours today proposing a new offering to a customer who is looking to migrate their SAN environment from 16G SAN Directors to the new gen7 64G SAN. Customer already uses 112 active ports and G730 (IBM SAN128B-7) is nicely fitted. But it's only 96 x SFP+ and additional SFP-DD ports. I tried to figure out how I could connect these new SFP-DDs to my devices.
Brocade Gen7 San switches (G720 & G730) uses SFP-DD (Double Density) transceivers for additional connectivity.
G720: 64 ports
48 x 64G SFP+
8 x 128G SFP-DD ports (with SN-LC cables 16 x 64G additional device connectivity)
G730: 128 ports
96 x 64G SFP+
16 x 128G SFP-DD ports (with SN-LC cables 32 x 64G additional device connectivity)
There was QSFP in Gen6 32G and it was easy to use these ports with QSFP to LC (4 LC) break out cable.
With Gen7 SFP-DD we have new connector called Senko Connector (SN).
And we need new SN-to-LC cables for device connectivity. Unfortunately this new cables not come with the switch configuration. You can find it online.
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