Administrator Guide

Non Dell-Qualified Transceivers
The system supports Dell-qualified transceivers and only some of the non Dell-qualified transceivers.
If the system displays an error message similar to the following, the transceiver is not Dell-qualified. The Dell EMC Networking OS places
the interface in error-disabled (operationally down) state.
Apr 29 05:09:16: %S4048-ON:1 %IFAGT-2-TRANSCEIVER_UNSUPPORTED_ERROR: Transceiver in slot 1
port 50 unrecognized, putting interface in operational-down state
The following command output displays that the interface is in error-disabled state:
DellEMC#show interfaces fortyGigE 1/50
fortyGigE 1/50 is up, line protocol is down(error-disabled[Transceiver Unsupported])
Hardware is DellEMCEth, address is 34:17:eb:f2:25:c6
Current address is 34:17:eb:f2:25:c6
Non-qualified pluggable media present, QSFP type is 40GBASE-SR4
Wavelength is 850nm
No power
Interface index is 2103813
Internet address is not set
Mode of IPv4 Address Assignment : NONE
DHCP Client-ID :3417ebf225c6
MTU 1554 bytes, IP MTU 1500 bytes
LineSpeed 40000 Mbit
<output truncated for brevity>
For information about which optics and transceivers are supported, contact your Dell representative.
Splitting 40G Ports without Reload
You can split 40G interfaces into 10G ports without reboot. You can also combine the split ports to create a 40G port without reload.
• On a device, fan-out profile constructs automatically with default 24 ports
(2,4,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,29,31) . These ports can be changed to 40G to 10G mode or vice-versa
without reload.
• When a non-supported profile release is upgraded to a supported profile release, the fan-out configured ports get automatically
included in the profile. In fan-out mode, if a system is upgraded with 25 or 26 ports, only 24 ports get upgraded to fan-out mode. The
rest of the ports are put to default 40G mode.
• In stacking, configure profile first before provisioning for new units. Otherwise it is mandatory to reload for profile to take effect.
• If there is a mismatch in fan-out profile between master and the new member in stacking, the master re-configures the member with
its quad-mode profile, quad-mode, and stack-group configuration and then reset the member. To avoid stack split during profile
mismatch, the master does stack group configurations of the new member.
To configure the quad-port-profile, use the following command:
CONFIGURATION mode
stack-unit stack-unit number slot slot-number port port-number portmode quad
The defaults ports are:
2,4,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,29,31
To display the Fan-out capability profile, use the following show command:
show system stack-unit stack-unit number quad-port-profile
Example of the
show Command
The following example shows the show system stack-unit stack-unit number quad-port-
profile command.
Dell#show system stack-unit 1 quad-port-profile
Configured fan out profile ports in stack-unit 1
Configured Activated
2 2
4 4
6 6
8 8
362 Interfaces