Hi Everyone,
We are in the process of upgrading our SAN and have the HP Nimble system on its way. We have already received the switches (HP 5700 as specified by winning bid) and are in the process of setting them up but have hit a road block.
The plan was to connect them to the Meraki's via DAC cables but we cant seem to get them working, the cable shows up on both switches but we cant get any traffic to pass over the cables.
We have tried the following hardware arrangements:
Meraki Cable - Meraki to HP sees cable but no traffic
Meraki Cable - Meraki to Meraki sees cable and passes traffic
HP Cable - Meraki to HP sees cable but n traffic
HP Cable - HP to HP sees and passes traffic
3rd party cable - Meraki to HP sees cable but no traffic
The 3rd party cable was coded with a Meraki connector on one end and an HP connector on the other.
The ports are enabled and have tried various options relating to trunks & Access but still cant get any traffic across these links.
Is there something somewhere we have missed?
Thanks
Matt
Usually this kind of issue will not be supported by HP nor Cisco.
For that reason to interconnect two different vendors we usually use actual SFPs and patch cables. Even when connecting two Cisco switches, we still check the compatibility matrix to check compatibility on both ends.
Have you tried reaching out to the DAC-cable vendor?
For the testing, is the network loop free between the HP and Meraki?
Are options enabled like UDLD?
Can you at least see the LLDP neighbour info?
Is the Meraki switches running 10.x firmware?
Any firmware updates fo rthe HP switches?
Does the HP cable work Meraki to Meraki?