topic Re: FAS 8040 and Cisco QSFP to Four SFP+ Copper Breakout Cables in ONTAP Hardware

FAS 8040 and Cisco QSFP to Four SFP+ Copper Breakout Cables

irakli_natsvlishvili — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:47:31 GMT

Hello,

Recently we got Cisco Nexus 5672 switch. My question - is it possible/supported to connect 8040 with 4 10G Ethernet ports to 5682 Cisco switch using QSFP to Four SFP+ Copper Breakout Cables?

Currently filers are connected using ordinary 10G copper cables and four ports are trunked into one logical/LACP interface with VLANs. So my goal is to reduce number of cables coming from the cabitet hosting Netapp filers from 16 (8x10g cables) to just four.

Thanks

Re: FAS 8040 and Cisco QSFP to Four SFP+ Copper Breakout Cables

Jeff_Yao — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 22:10:26 GMT

hi,

it is supported as long as you use cisco or brocade passive cables. below kb has more details about netapp cards and platform.

https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?id=3014736

hopefully helps

Thanks

Jeff

Re: FAS 8040 and Cisco QSFP to Four SFP+ Copper Breakout Cables

hariprak — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 04:16:30 GMT

Please refer the KB article, https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=3014736

Re: FAS 8040 and Cisco QSFP to Four SFP+ Copper Breakout Cables

udo_braunschweiger — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:38:02 GMT

Hello All

i am at Customer Site today and i realized that the Network Team wanted to connect the AFF8080 running ONTAP 9.0 to Cisco Switches with CISCO 10m active Cables.

QSFP-4X10G-AC10M=

I guess tht is explicitely not supported

Regards from Switzerland

Udo