Hi!
I need some new switches for my small datacenter (2 buildings, each with about 20 servers).
At the moment, there 4 Dell N4000 switching are building the "core". Every server is connected to two of the Dell N4000 with an A/P bond. Additional, there are some Dell 55xx for the clients - also connected to the N4000s. Everything is redundant, but because of the RSTP, 50% of the links are "idle".
Now, I want to upgrade to 40/100GbE. I need some robust switches, but I do not need many features. I do not use any L3 features. Only:
- L2 basic switching
- RSTP
- MLAG
...perhaps ERPS in the future
- SNMP monitoring
- LLDP
What I found have been the following models below 10k each:
- Mellanox
The Mellanox SN2100 are looking great, but on the edge of my budget. There is very few expirience on them in internet forums, but Mellanox is running in datacenters for many years.
- Dell/Force10
The former F10-models are looking good, but I do not like their "trunk" config. If I want to configure a port to forward every VLAN, it blows up the whole config, because there is no config like "switchport trunk allowed vlan all".
Force10 had a great reputation, but I do not know, what happend after Dell integrated them.
- FS.com
FS.com does sell switches, now. I was never disappointed, when I bought fibre components, there, but I do not find ANY test or expirience on their switches, but they seem to support everything, I need and a lot more. The datasheets of the S5580 and S8050 are looking great and their price is good, but I am afraid to run in a lot of trouble with these products.
Did anybody here use these switches?
Can you give me a hint on how to find the right product?
Thank you
Stril
I need some new switches for my small datacenter (2 buildings, each with about 20 servers).
At the moment, there 4 Dell N4000 switching are building the "core". Every server is connected to two of the Dell N4000 with an A/P bond. Additional, there are some Dell 55xx for the clients - also connected to the N4000s. Everything is redundant, but because of the RSTP, 50% of the links are "idle".
Now, I want to upgrade to 40/100GbE. I need some robust switches, but I do not need many features. I do not use any L3 features. Only:
- L2 basic switching
- RSTP
- MLAG
...perhaps ERPS in the future
- SNMP monitoring
- LLDP
What I found have been the following models below 10k each:
- Mellanox
The Mellanox SN2100 are looking great, but on the edge of my budget. There is very few expirience on them in internet forums, but Mellanox is running in datacenters for many years.
- Dell/Force10
The former F10-models are looking good, but I do not like their "trunk" config. If I want to configure a port to forward every VLAN, it blows up the whole config, because there is no config like "switchport trunk allowed vlan all".
Force10 had a great reputation, but I do not know, what happend after Dell integrated them.
- FS.com
FS.com does sell switches, now. I was never disappointed, when I bought fibre components, there, but I do not find ANY test or expirience on their switches, but they seem to support everything, I need and a lot more. The datasheets of the S5580 and S8050 are looking great and their price is good, but I am afraid to run in a lot of trouble with these products.
Did anybody here use these switches?
Can you give me a hint on how to find the right product?
Thank you
Stril