Cisco GLC-T use in F5 i5800 series BIG-IP

K8153: F5 support of third-party hardware components

 

F5 policies strictly prohibit the use of third-party hardware components with F5 products. For example, third-party power supplies, memory modules, hard disk drives, and XFP/SFP/QSFP+ optical components are not supported for use with F5 products, and may invalidate the product's warranty or inhibit efforts by F5 Customer Support to service or troubleshoot the altered product.

 

Non-F5 products may not work correctly, or at all.

 

Even if they do, F5 Support is not obligated to assist with issues that occur on such a configuration. In most cases, a Support Engineer will make a best efforts attempt to assist, but if the issue appears to be directly related to the network layer, Support cannot proceed until non-F5 hardware is replaced with F5 supplied items.