I'm a Cisco guy. I always have been. Yet for home labs, I'm getting destroyed by their license restrictions and the fact that even used stuff is insanely expensive. I've got 2 5010s and besides the fact that they're insanely loud, run hot, and suck more power than my disk arrays...they're pretty good switches for my use case. However, I've had some weird things happen where they occasionally won't post when rebooting. They are old and were a good deal at the time for 10 Gb. Newer Cisco switches are too rich for my blood but I've been noticing some Dell and HP switches out there that seem reasonable. Any thoughts on them? I have little to no experience with either.
Anyone else have recommendations for decent value 10 Gb switches? I'm looking for simple layer 2 since I have upstream L3 switches controlling most of my routing. I need something compatible with VPC (although pretty sure this will end up being a Cisco only thing) / LACP. I have 26 ports on each 5010 at the moment so I need something comparable capacity wise.
Anyone else have recommendations for decent value 10 Gb switches? I'm looking for simple layer 2 since I have upstream L3 switches controlling most of my routing. I need something compatible with VPC (although pretty sure this will end up being a Cisco only thing) / LACP. I have 26 ports on each 5010 at the moment so I need something comparable capacity wise.