A little background first:
200 users, dispersed across 27 locations. We are looking to refresh switching and access points.
We’d prefer to go with a single vendor but understand it may not always make sense - cost, features, limitations, etc...
Also our corporate office has 7 servers - so we’ll need some 10g networking there, replace the core (collapsed or leaf/spine?). We’re mostly layer 2. All routing is on our firewalls. We would like to do some L3 on switches but we’re not there yet.
I looked at Juniper and seems the EX2300/3400 would be great for access switches and the 4600 for the core.
The Aruba 2540 and 2930 for access, 3810 for core?
Not too familiar with Arista models yet. Same goes for the APs across the three.
Then there’s the storage network - we use iSCSI. Maybe EX4600, 3810M, 7050?
What would be your go-to?
What are some strengths and weaknesses?
Especially on cloud management side of things since we’d like centralized control, monitoring, etc...
I see a lot of praises for all 3 and a lot of issues with them as well. Juniper seems to have okay support and buggy firmware, I haven’t seen anything particularly bad with Aruba except for maybe the APs not being on a controller. Arista seems more DC focused and expensive...?
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