Looking for suggestions on l2 10g switch

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xud6

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edited: I am looking for switch with 8+ sfp+ ports with vlan and stp, connecting 3 hypervisor and access switches.
I current have 4 choices.

Dell x4012 is around $600 with 3 year on site support. But it's gui only and seems very different from other dell dnos based switchs

Unifi us-16-xg is around same price. We current have unifi aps and plan to use unifi switches for access, have single management interface is a plus. But it's relative new and short on features (althrough we currently didn't use them, and it may improve over time)

edgemax es-16-xg. Maybe unms is better choice? i am not sure. But it definitely have more features avaliable

huawei S6720S-26Q-LI-24S-AC also around $600. It has best spec but there is a splite in price between sellers at $600 and $1200, Also the sellers (at $600) says it has only one year warranty.

I have a hard time try to make decision.
Does any of them have problems?
Is there some thing important when compair switches?
Any better options?

Thanks for any advices
 
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As far as I know both the 6610-24 and the 6610-48 have the same number of 10GBe (8xSFP+, front accessible) and 40GBe (4xQSFP+, rear accessible, can be split into 4x10GBe using a fan out cable) ports, the difference only being the additional 24 1GBe RJ45 ports the -48 provides.

If you only need VLANs and L2 switching, the Mikrotik CRS317-1G-16S+RM might also be worth a look at ~$400. It has 16 10GBe SFP+ and is very power efficient, although the CLI/web UI is not the easiest thing in the world to use.
 
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I had power supply problems with an Edgemax; the Ubnt gear only has 1 year warranty, so I've been avoiding their switches since the failure.

I'd personally go for the Brocade.
 
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Sadly no one localy sells Brocade ICX6610. After added shipping i am looking at around $450 for Brocade ICX6610 (used). I doubt it makes sense at this price.
 
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anlin said:
As far as I know both the 6610-24 and the 6610-48 have the same number of 10GBe (8xSFP+, front accessible) and 40GBe (4xQSFP+, rear accessible, can be split into 4x10GBe using a fan out cable) ports, the difference only being the additional 24 1GBe RJ45 ports the -48 provides.

If you only need VLANs and L2 switching, the Mikrotik CRS317-1G-16S+RM might also be worth a look at ~$400. It has 16 10GBe SFP+ and is very power efficient, although the CLI/web UI is not the easiest thing in the world to use.
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I remember several years ago Mikrotik switches has many suprise limitations, features was supported on paper but require you to put it in bridge mode in reality and make 10g switch useless in the process. looking into their docs the stp part still unclear, can it do 239mpps switching while has individual stp on every port?
 
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xud6 said:
I remember several years ago Mikrotik switches has many suprise limitations, features was supported on paper but require you to put it in bridge mode in reality and make 10g switch useless in the process. looking into their docs the stp part still unclear, can it do 239mpps switching while has individual stp on every port?
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I don't own a CRS317 so I can't speak from experience, but according to Mikrotik's docs (Manual:Switch Chip Features - MikroTik Wiki) the CRS317 should support STP with hardware offloading. As far as I understand this means wire speed switching with STP enabled.
 
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xud6 said:
Sadly no one localy sells Brocade ICX6610. After added shipping i am looking at around $450 for Brocade ICX6610 (used). I doubt it makes sense at this price.
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Just got an icx6610-24 today, for $167 shipped to Norway (from the US)
can’t wait to get it :)

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xud6 said:
Dell x4012 is around $600 with 3 year on site support. But it's gui only and seems very different from other dell dnos based switchs
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Just as a heads-up this has best offer and the seller usually will take $100 off in this price range via best offer DELL NETWORKING X4012 0CJM5 | eBay

I like the MikroTik for home use, but I do not think I would deploy that in a remote data center. That may very well be a misguided personal bias. Earlier firmware had a few bugs which is shaping my view.

It may cost more, but if you can get one of those Arista 32 port QSFP+ switches, that could be really interesting. You can break out to 10GbE and give yourself a cheap upgrade path to 40GbE. When the switches were $2000+ I would not have said that, but since you can get them for $600 or less, they are much more viable. In one of our DC's, I think the 40GbE switches will fully replace our 10Gb SFP+ switches and we will use DACs or just pay for optics if we need 1-2 fiber ports. We are going to start deploying that to more places where we aren't using 25GbE in the near future.

It's totally overkill in many spots though, but you're talking $100-300 more to get 32x40gbps instead of 16x10 or 12x10
 
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@TangoWhiskey9 We have been doing the same with those Aristas. They aren't good for home use unless you have a dedicated rack space for them.
 
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