The tl:dr is: if you're paying for enterprise support, buy the expensive, branded SFPs.
On 2015/02/25 15:03, Brodie, Kent wrote: > We have DELL SFP cables connected to a pair of Nexus 5596 switches, > they work. Can't speak for the "twenty dollar" variety, but.. If you buy a $20 SFP, keep a spare branded module for trouble-shooting. > There's a setting on the switch you need to enable to allow third- > party SFP's to stop the switch from complaining loudly about them. That's important if you have automated monitoring of your switches, like nagios. > I also believe that if you run into an issue and Cisco finds out > they're non-branded SFP cables, you might run into support difficulty > depending on the issue. And THAT is the concise answer to why people pay for the branded item. If you have spare branded SFPs you can swap in when the cheap ones have issues, you'll probably be fine. If you have a support contract and the unhappy port has an off-brand SFP (or any port in the switch if they ask for a config dump) you may wind up on the wrong side of a void warranty. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
