HP/Juniper (Cisco/Dell?) Stack switch needed! Advice me!

[Emanuele]

Hi all,

I need some advice. Let's start from what I need, I hope I can explain it correctly.
I need a couple of switch that can be stacked, and other features, in order to:

1. have full redundancy - one broken shouldn't block anything
2. have double of the bandwidth - provided using LACP between 2 port of servers and 1 port for each switch
3. have at least 6 sfp/sfp+ in each switch in order to connect to other switch in LACP as stated before
4. layer 3
5. more than 500 VLANs
6. it's a plus, but double PSU would be nice
7. it doesn't need to be new

Budget is always low

The switch that seems to have all the requirements (from a first sight) is HP 6600 - J9264A.
It has all the port (4 dual personality 1g eth/sfp and 4 sfp+), does have stack, support LACP, VLANs, layer 3 and has redundant PSU.

Btw I'm not sure that it does support LACP between 2 different switch, and I don't know if it's a "real" stack, like Cisco and Juniper (with virtual switch) or it's just a "stack means just ONE ip"...
Can anyone help/does have any experience with this?
If you know some switch that can fit the requirements please tell me!

 

[kiteboarder]

You didn't really say if you need new with warranty or not. If not, the Brocade ICX 6610 series may be a choice.

https://ruckus-www.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/datasheets/ds-icx-6610.pdf

There's a huge thread on STH about them.

 

[Emanuele]

Thank you, I added the seventh number to the list, I'll check the Brocace ICX 6610 24 port.