We're starting up a new data center site and I need to pick the switches and routers to put in there so I would really appreciate some input from the more experienced in this field.
We're starting off with 2 racks but will soon go to 5-6 racks of equipment.
The only gear we have there right now is a pair of HPE 5945 switches from one of our customers so for the switching part I was thinking of going with those same switches because so far they seem pretty solid and I see the community is satisfied with their performance and the HP support, other reasons for going with these switches are staying with the same vendor so we don't end up putting in 4 different vendors like in our previous site and last but not least is the management that is kinda nudging me in that direction. Do you guys have any experience with these switches? Would you recommend them?
For the routing part I have no management nudge and that probably makes things even more difficult with all the options out there. We've been using VyOs for years now and we're very satisfied with the performance and stability but for the new site we decided to go with a physical router. The router will be doing BGP with 2 ISPs over 1G links with no need for full routing table, budget is ~10k per unit. In the spirit of staying with the same vendor I've been looking into what HP has to offer and while their stuff looks ok on paper I can't find any good and relevant community feedback which brings me to the question, is anyone using these routers? Are they any good? And why is it so hard to find any customer information or feedback on them? The only thing we do know is that we don't want to use Cisco. What would you recommend for this use case? We've been looking into some Junipers and Fortigates but unfortunately we don't have much experience with them because right now we're more in the Dell and opensource waters (VyOs, pfSense, Untangle etc etc).
Any and all input will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
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