Hi,
My customer have several Dell M1000e Blade system with MXL 10/40 Blade switch. They also have a Cisco switch Catalyst 4507R+E (with Module: WS-X4712-SFP+E).
They want to access an iSCSI Compellent storage from the Blade systems by connecting both the MXL blade switch and compellent storage to the Cisco switch using 10Gb SFP+ connection.
By using a Dell QSFP+ MTP breakout cable to 4 x SFP+ LC, where the QSFP+ cable end is connected with the MXL switch and the 4 x SFP+ cable end connected to the Cisco switch. However, they have concerns if such connection is supported for iSCSI and if the breakout cable is compatible with the Cisco switches.
Since the cable is from Dell, i don't see a problem connecting the QSFP+ end to the MXL switch as it come with a QSFP+ transceiver already.
But for the 4 x SFP+ LC breakout end, as I understand it does not come with transceivers and will required to plug into a Cisco brand SFP+ transceiver which in turn plug in to the Cisco switch.
As such, they are not convinced the breakout cable is supported. They would like to know if we have any breakout cable compatibility guide that stated the breakout cable can work with the Cisco Catalyst 4507R+E switch?
Thanks.
Regards,
Jeff