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Kittipong
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Aug 23, 2017

Brocade GBIC with F5

Hi,

 

Can I use brocade 10G-SFPP-SR-8 with F5 BIG-IP4000?

 

Has anyone ever used this and found any problem?

 

Thank you,

 

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  • preslav_ilevski's avatar
    preslav_ilevski
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    Aug 23, 2017

    Hello llTAEll,

     

    We have the same problem, and have many discussions for that case.

     

    You can see official statement of f5 here:

     

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K8153

     

    If you decide to use third-party components you take a risk for product's warranty.

     

    I hope the above link is informative.

     

    Regards

     

  • MvdG's avatar
    MvdG
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    Aug 23, 2017

    Hi,

     

    The statement from F5 is the case for all vendors. 3rd party SFP's are not supported.

     

    In real live it should work and maybe you will never face a problem. But what happens when you encounter strange behaviour on your network? What happens when you change something in your network (not on F5) and suddenly you have issues you cannot explain?

     

    Best advise is to use a supported setup in you production environment. This means software, configuration and also hardware.

     

    Regards, Martijn.