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<div dir="ltr" style="">Prasad,</div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="">You would be better off looking at the following: </div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="">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.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="">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. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="">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 </div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="">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 </div>
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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
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