Sunday, August 16, 2020

Help choosing a switch

Looking to upgrade from a Cisco SG300-20 as I've maxed out all the ports on it to a 48 port with PoE+

I've already got a decent 10Gb 16 port switch so not a big loss to me if the replacement switch doesn't have sfp+ ports.

What I've managed to narrow it down to is these 3 choices below, I do intend to add a 2nd of whatever I purchase later on so I can stack for redundancy:

HP Aruba 2930f (JL262A) 48 port PoE with 4x SFP 1Gb uplinks Cisco C2960X-48-LPS-L 4x SFP 1Gb uplinks (EOL 2021) Dell N3048P 2x SFP+ 10Gb uplinks (EOL 2023) Both the Dell and Cisco can do backplane stacking were the HP does frontplane stacking and would only be able to do it over 1Gb links, what I do not know is if that is good enough for VSF, ISP connection is no more then 1Gb and all storage traffic runs across my 10Gb dedicated switch anyways.

Been at this for 5 days now trying to pull the trigger to purchase, any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks



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