My understanding is that the 4x1G parts means that the SFP ports are not licensed for 10G, if you add the license they should work for 10G.
This sounds like a good price for this switch and much cheaper than anything I had seen when I was looking for a switch. I recently got a ICX7150-24P (the version with PoE), but for quite a bit more. Even on my 7150-24P I can set the fans to silent, by limiting the overall PoE power budget and the fans will only spin up for a minute during bootup time. So, yes, I think you will like the quietness of this unit.
Yes, you will need to unlock the 10G feature, but this isn't difficult. There is a description on how to do that in the first post of this thread, however that descriptions seems to be geared toward a 7150-12P, which has only 2 SFP+ ports. For my unit with 4 SFP+ ports, I followed the instructions at https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...be-40gbe-switching.21107/page-157#post-254799 and this worked very well.
that's a hell of a deal, you can unlock the ports to 10gb with an honor license. just follow the icx7150 update/config section of my guide, and when it gets to the license commands, you'll have to hit tab to see what the license names/arguments are because they wont be the 2 license one for the mini 7150. then just use that license name instead for the license install command
Thanks, but that really didn't answer all of my questions...
The front and rear ports do not conflict with each other. The 6610 is a beast of a switch and will give you full loving on every port it has.
Most of your questions are answered at @fohdeesha's guide, which gives you detailed instructions for flashing the boot and firmware images on the switch and setting up a basic configuration, among many other things. He also provides a zip file you can download; this contains the boot/firmware images and documentation.
fohdeesha.com
...the number of times you've had to repeat yourself?
Two is more than one (or as the saying goes 'one (of something) is none, two is one, three is right for me').
I actually have read his instructions and followed them to update my 6610, so I am definitely thankful for that. I did establish a serial connection to configure it. For example, I was having a PoE issue where a device was not being powered. I didn't realize that apparently after the firmware upgrades in his guide, all of the PoE is disabled? I had to find out how to manually enable inline power on the switchports I needed PoE on. What the guide did not cover (and if it did, I missed it) is:Most of your questions are answered at @fohdeesha's guide, which gives you detailed instructions for flashing the boot and firmware images on the switch and setting up a basic configuration, among many other things. He also provides a zip file you can download; this contains the boot/firmware images and documentation.
FCX / ICX6610 - Fohdeesha Docs
Think of the 6610 as having three banks of ports: one bank is the 48 x 1G ports on the front panel, another bank is the 8 x SFP/SFP+ ports on the front panel, the last bank is the 4 x 40G ports on the back of the switch (two of which require breakout cables to give you 8 x SFP/SFP+ ports). All three banks are independent of each other and you can use all of the ports in each bank simultaneously, i.e., using a particular port does not disable any other ports.
You can certainly use a 10GBASE-T transceiver in the front SFP/SFP+ ports to attach a copper 10G connection. FWIW, my understanding is that these run hotter than fiber or passive transceivers.
You don't have to configure IP addresses on the ports, though you can configure the switch to provide IP addresses via DHCP, if desired. I don't use the switch for DHCP; I use pfSense. I assign static IP addresses to nearly all of my machines anyway. Basically, you just plug your devices in.
You'll need to connect to the switch either via the serial console or an SSH session (both are covered in @fohdeesha's guide above) to set up the switch, including licensing.
This is a massive thread and there's an immense amount of good information here posted by some smart folks who know what they're doing. I've learned a lot by poring over it, which I've done more than once.
What brand of transceiver are you using? These switches seem to work with just about anything you throw at them, but perhaps not with your transceiver. You can use the 'show media' command to see how the switch 'sees' your transceiver. The front panel SFP/SFP+ ports are 1/3/1-8; here's the output from my port 1/3/2, where I've installed a FiniSar transceiver:
SSH@brocade-6610-u1.spearfoot.net#show media ethernet 1/3/2
Port 1/3/2: Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP +)
Vendor: FINISAR CORP. Version: B
Part# : FTLX8571D3BNL-E5 Serial#: AMQ0TC3!
interface ethernet 1/3/2
port-name Trunk10G 2
speed-duplex 10G-full
!SSH@brocade-6610-u1.spearfoot.net#show interface ethernet 1/3/2
10GigabitEthernet1/3/2 is up, line protocol is up
Port up for 7 day(s) 9 hour(s) 51 minute(s) 56 second(s)
Hardware is 10GigabitEthernet, address is 748e.f8f6.f700 (bia 748e.f8f6.f73c)
Interface type is 10Gig SFP+
Configured speed 10Gbit, actual 10Gbit, configured duplex fdx, actual fdx
Member of 4 L2 VLANs, port is tagged, port state is FORWARDING
BPDU guard is Disabled, ROOT protect is Disabled, Designated protect is Disabled
Link Error Dampening is Disabled
STP configured to ON, priority is level0, mac-learning is enabled
Openflow is Disabled, Openflow Hybrid mode is Disabled, Flow Control is enabled
Mirror disabled, Monitor disabled
Mac-notification is disabled
Not member of any active trunks
Not member of any configured trunks
Port name is Trunk10G 2
MTU 10200 bytes, encapsulation ethernet
300 second input rate: 15944 bits/sec, 9 packets/sec, 0.00% utilization
300 second output rate: 38272 bits/sec, 15 packets/sec, 0.00% utilization
194948462 packets input, 1416794689861 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 234556 broadcasts, 124805 multicasts, 194589101 unicasts
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 ignored
0 runts, 0 giants
306093793 packets output, 810296349818 bytes, 0 underruns
Transmitted 588139 broadcasts, 57908 multicasts, 305447746 unicasts
0 output errors, 0 collisions
Relay Agent Information option: Disabled
Egress queues:
Queue counters Queued packets Dropped Packets
0 306066113 0
1 0 0
2 0 0
3 0 0
4 0 0
5 14140 0
6 0 0
7 13540 0The 10G breakout ports are 1/2/2-5 and 1/2/7-10, ports 1/2/1 and 1/2/6 are the 40G ports. You can check the media state for these with the 'show media' command at the console. Here's output from my switch, showing that I have an Arista breakout cable attached:
SSH@brocade-6610-u1.spearfoot.net#show media ether 1/2/2
Port 1/2/2:Type : 40GBASE-Passive Copper
Vendor Name: Arista Networks Serial Num: XHC1314LG06P Revision: 01
SSH@brocade-6610-u1.spearfoot.net#show media ether 1/2/3
Port 1/2/3:Type : 40GBASE-Passive Copper
Vendor Name: Arista Networks Serial Num: XHC1314LG06P Revision: 01
SSH@brocade-6610-u1.spearfoot.net#show media ether 1/2/4
Port 1/2/4:Type : 40GBASE-Passive Copper
Vendor Name: Arista Networks Serial Num: XHC1314LG06P Revision: 01
SSH@brocade-6610-u1.spearfoot.net#show media ether 1/2/5
Port 1/2/5:Type : 40GBASE-Passive Copper
Vendor Name: Arista Networks Serial Num: XHC1314LG06P Revision: 01
SSH@brocade-6610-u1.spearfoot.net#Licensing is a little complicated on these devices, but typically the 'show license' command will return something like this:
SSH@brocade-6610-u1.spearfoot.net#show license
Index Lic Mode Lic Name Lid/Serial No Lic Type Status Lic Period Lic Capacity
Stack unit 1:
1 Node Lock ICX6610-PREM-LIC-SW dzmHKHMlFmK Normal Active Unlimited 65535
2 Node Lock ICX6610-10G-LIC-POD dzmHKHMlFmK Normal Active Unlimited 4