The job is in the market for a new switch, and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for a SMB. It doesn't need to be anything super fancy, this would replace a 16 port Netgear, but it does need to provide metrics to see what's happening with it.
It's a small company, and the three employees and the twelve servers will be sharing the switch. Not the most ideal setup, but it will work until I get a bigger budget. I'm the systems engineer in the office, by the way, and while I'm very comfortable with Linux and Unix-like OSs, I haven't worked with networking equipment full time in a while.
Needed specs:
- 24+ 1G+ ports
- SNMP or some way to monitor it and collect metrics.
Nice to have but not particularly important specs:
- LACP
- Port Mirroring
- VLANs
- Jumbo frames
- 10G+ uplinks
- Ansible integration
Not needed specs:
- L3 routing
- Stacking
- SPF ports
Budget: <$1K (US), preferably
Candidates:
- Juniper EX2300-24T
- Dell Networking X1026
- Dell Networking X1052
- FS.com S3900-24T4S
- FS.com S3900-48T4S
- TRENDnet TEG-30284
- TRENDnet TL2-G244
Also, it does need to be new, and I don't need a support contract. I love refurb equipment too, but not right now.
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