Quanta LB8

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I just purchased a Quanta LB8 from an Ebay seller. I was able to bargain it down to $900 including 24 transceivers. Not too bad I guess...

Does anyone have any info on this unit? Anyone seen one in the wild yet?
 
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I have one, just never put it to use because I wanted the T3048-LY8 and T3048-LY9 (matching) for the lab with 40GbE. @dba saw it when he visited the lab.
 
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Patrick said:
I have one, just never put it to use because I wanted the T3048-LY8 and T3048-LY9 (matching) for the lab with 40GbE. @dba saw it when he visited the lab.
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@Patrick thanks for the reply. Do you know if it has a Web Gui? Does it run a full OpenStack Linux OS? (PowerPC I assume?)

Thanks for any info you can send my way...
 
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I never even turned it on! :-/ If I have an extra SFP+ I may fire it up in the datacenter this week.
 
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Patrick said:
I finally fired one up from long ago:
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I wonder if this means Cumulus Linux is on the switch?!?
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That does indeed appear to be Cumulus Linux! I unfortunately have to send mine back as at it came very beat up, missing a rack ear, and would not boot. I'm assuming youre going to play with that one for a while but if you decide to part with it let me know please.
 
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@rockitlikeithott I paid a lot more for more for mine than people here did so I may just keep, but I will certainly put it in the FS section if I do sell it.
 
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PigLover said:
Hey @Patrick - since you fired it up - I'm still looking for some power consumption numbers on the LB8 vs LB6.
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Ask me for something easy!

Actually it is now in a remotely switched port but that switched PDU only does PDU level metering not port level. Let me see if I can find the data from a bit earlier.

What I can do now is remotely power cycle and I have serial console remotely.
 
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Hey @PigLover

I am not sure this is helpful to you but this is the 208V PDU graph of when I was playing... try to crack the Cumulus password/ what is this thing. Note: I pulled out the other PSU so this is the full switch power on this single outlet. Only management 1GbE NIC and serial cable attached:
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I do not have the LB6 to compare this to but that is what I recorded. I think SFP+ modules are like 2W max?
 
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Patrick said:
Hey @PigLover

I am not sure this is helpful to you but this is the 208V PDU graph of when I was playing... try to crack the Cumulus password/ what is this thing. Note: I pulled out the other PSU so this is the full switch power on this single outlet. Only management 1GbE NIC and serial cable attached:
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I do not have the LB6 to compare this to but that is what I recorded. I think SFP+ modules are like 2W max?
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Have you tried root and CumulusLinux! Or cumulus and CumulusLinux!
 
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Yea I think I am trying to catch the boot sequence too late or something.
 
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