Pretty small setup - three small-ish buildings, total of about 10 switches. Daily throughput is laughably small, most switches are 48 port, but we aren't utilizing even half of that. We currently use a pair of stacked Cisco 3750 switches for a collapsed core and are looking to upgrade due to them being EoL. I'm thinking two Cisco 9200 switches would be a good replacement. The boss is looking at Aruba. Eventually we'll be replacing the access layer switches as well, and if we go Aruba for the core, we're probably going Aruba for everything. His biggest reason for non-Cisco is price and licensing, but the 9200s are fairly cheap, aren't they? That is, compared to Aruba's L3 aggregation switches. Haven't gotten price quotes, but from what I've seen online. The other issue with licensing I think is a non-issue that he's misread. The base license does everything we'd need.
I'm really not looking forward to reworking all of our configs, figuring out what hidden quirks and gotchas another vendor has, I'm hoping to stay in Cisco land. Anyone have any arguments in my favor? Or perhaps it's not such a horrible jump? Thoughts? Recommendations? Thanks.
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