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A700 40g Breakout to 4x10Gb Ontap Config Question

coreywanless

I'm setting up our A700, and need to figure out how to convert e4e 40g to the e4e-h 10g ports. I have the breakout cabled up between the A700 and the end network switches. Where is the magic setting to make this happen?

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dirk_ecker

Hey Corey,

You can convert the ports from 40 GbE to 10 GbE in maintenance mode. The command is

*> nicadmin convert –m [ 40G | 10G ] [ port ]

So if your 40g card is in slot 4, run

*> nicadmin convert -m 10G e4e

Converting e4e 40G port to four 10G ports

Halt the system, install/change the cable, and then reboot for conversion to take effect

I hope this helps! Let us know if this works for you.

Best regards,

Dirk

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dirk_ecker

Hey Corey,

You can convert the ports from 40 GbE to 10 GbE in maintenance mode. The command is

*> nicadmin convert –m [ 40G | 10G ] [ port ]

So if your 40g card is in slot 4, run

*> nicadmin convert -m 10G e4e

Converting e4e 40G port to four 10G ports

Halt the system, install/change the cable, and then reboot for conversion to take effect

I hope this helps! Let us know if this works for you.

Best regards,

Dirk

coreywanless

That was it. Thanks for the quick feedback.

pwhite

Can you convert a single port to 4x10 10GBE and leave the other as a 40GBE ISL port?

coreywanless

If I understand you, yes, we have that configuration:

e4a Cluster Cluster up 9000 auto/40000 healthy false
e4e Default - up 9000 auto/10000 healthy false
e4f Default - up 9000 auto/10000 healthy false
e4g Default - down 1500 auto/10 - false
e4h Default - down 1500 auto/10 - false

e4a is the 40GB connection back to Cluster Switches

e4e and e4f (two of the 40g to 10g split are ran to our network switches)

e4g and e4h are just hanging there on the other end. (Messy, but it is what it is)

If you are talking about the configuration on the other end (Where the 10g splitter connects into) You will need to create a ifgrp on the Netapp side, and a port-channel side to bond them all together.

pwhite

Hi,

Yes, that was the question. I should have provided more info but your answer is perfect despite my incomplete question.

Thanks

rmcneil84

When we tried the

*> nicadmin convert –m [ 40G | 10G ] [ port ]

and we get the following error "Firmware needs to be updated to complete the change", this is on a FAS90000. We cant seem to find if anyone else had this error. Everything we checked all seems to up to date.

rmcneil84

Follow up to our issues, we needed to update the OnTap version to 9.7P22, once we completed the upgrade the command worked. The version we were running (9.5P2) was on the doc as an approved version for that command but that was not the case.