Setup Guide
Non Dell-Qualied Transceivers
The system supports Dell-qualied transceivers and only some of the non Dell-qualied transceivers.
If the system displays an error message similar to the following, the transceiver is not Dell-qualied. 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 prole 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 prole release is upgraded to a supported prole release, the fan-out congured ports get automatically 
included in the prole. 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, congure prole rst before provisioning for new units. Otherwise it is mandatory to reload for prole to take eect.
• If there is a mismatch in fan-out prole between master and the new member in stacking, the master re-congures the member with 
its quad-mode prole, quad-mode, and stack-group conguration and then reset the member. To avoid stack split during prole 
mismatch, the master does stack group congurations of the new member.
To congure the quad-port-prole, 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 prole, use the following show command:
show system stack-unit stack-unit number quad-port-profile 
Interfaces
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