[c-nsp] Experience with Lenovo switching, anyone?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 04:12:12PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> > We've moved to Arista for the "1RU, lots of 10/25GE ports, MLAG"
> > places in our network, and we are very happy.  Stuff works like a 
> > breeze - and if it doesn't (we found a bug with IPv6 and OSPFv3,
> > of course) ATAC is really pleasant to work with.
> 
> Turned out to be too expensive for us. 1 G/s more than enough as
> edge connectivity for servers, not that much ???hyperconvergence???
> going on, yet. That???s why it does not pay (yet) to have higher
> bandwidth at the ToR.

Indeed, for 1G, Arista is fairly pricey.

> So I???m looking for 2-3k for a ToR switch - upper limit. We are replacing
> refurbished Cisco gear that came at 600 per 48 1G ports with 2 10G
> uplinks.
> 
> It???s really hard to find current manageable gear for our size ...

Have a look at Juniper EX3400.  24 or 48x 1G, 4x 10G, and reasonably
priced (they can do routing, but the routing license costs extra).

... that's where we went when Cisco annoyed us too much in the 1RU
L2 switching sector...  with nice ideas like a "yearly recurring
license fee" (catalyst 9300 series), etc.

(Sorry for not answering your original question - no idea if their
gear is any good, but after a bit of experience with "other" switching
gear - Extreme, Supermicro, Intel/ONS - this is what we've landed at,
Juniper for 1G and some 10G, Arista for 10G+MLAG+Routing)

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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