We were supplied with additional 10Gbps cards in our ESS. We didn’t realise there were two identical 10gbps cards in the chassis which lead to some confusion… I finally twigged and realised the cables were plugged into one, and the configuration was applied to the other 😊 Sorry network team it wasn’t a problem with the network! Kindest regards, Paul Paul Ward TS Infrastructure Architect Natural History Museum T: 02079426450 E: p.ward at nhm.ac.uk<mailto:p.ward at nhm.ac.uk> [A picture containing drawing Description automatically generated] From: gpfsug-discuss <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org> On Behalf Of Andrew Beattie Sent: Monday, June 5, 2023 4:52 PM To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Connecting IBM ESS 3200 to 10 Gb Ethernet Prasad, You would be better off looking at the following: https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/networking/ethernet/cable-accessories/ This will allow you to adapt from the QSFP+ 100GB transceiver down to a SFP+ 10GB transceiver and then use standard OM4 cable and Cisco 10GB transceivers at the other end. However I will also comment that using 10GB network for an all flash ESS is a bit like buying an F1 racing car and never taking it out of first gear. You would honestly be better investing in a single 100GB switch to at least build the ESS cluster at 100Gbit and getting the full potential bandwidth from your investment in NVMe Otherwise buy a FS5200 + 2 x86 servers and some scale licensing, because you are down rating the ESS3200 to less than 25% of its potential performance Regards, Andrew Beattie Technical Sales Specialist - Storage for Big Data & AI IBM Australia and New Zealand P. +61 421 337 927 E. abeattie at au1.ibm.com<mailto:abeattie at au1.ibm.com> Twitter: AndrewJBeattie LinkedIn: ________________________________ From: gpfsug-discuss <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org<mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org>> on behalf of Prasad Surampudi <prasad.surampudi at theatsgroup.com<mailto:prasad.surampudi at theatsgroup.com>> Sent: Monday, June 5, 2023 11:24:01 PM To: gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org<mailto:gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org> <gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org<mailto:gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] Connecting IBM ESS 3200 to 10 Gb Ethernet Does anyone know if we can connect IBM ESS 3200 to a customer 10 Gb ethernet network? If so what cables we need to connect it to a Cisco C93180YC-EX switch? Does it support 100 Gb to 4x10 GB fanout connections? Prasad Surampudi | Sr. Systems ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization. ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd Does anyone know if we can connect IBM ESS 3200 to a customer 10 Gb ethernet network? If so what cables we need to connect it to a Cisco C93180YC-EX switch? Does it support 100 Gb to 4x10 GB fanout connections? Prasad Surampudi | Sr. Systems Enginee prasad.surampudi at theatsgr<mailto:prasad.surampudi at theatsgroup.com>oup.com<mailto:prasad.surampudi at theatsgroup.com> | 302.419.5833 Innovative IT consulting & modern infrastructure solutions www.theatsgroup.com<http://theatsgroup.com/> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20230605/a25f5ab4/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5356 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20230605/a25f5ab4/attachment.jpg>
