Network switch sought
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Wow, it's really good to hear all of the input. One of my pet peaves with many of the products out there is no one really addresses the questions of "why would I want to use your product?", or more importantly: "what do you do that's better than the other guy", or even the most important ones like "why do I care?"
I have a couple of procurves. I can't remember the model number, but I recall I couldn't assign ports to vlans without using the comandline menu interface: the web interface would not do it. Once past that though, they work pretty well.
I do need to run down some of those other models, but Please keep it coming!
–jason
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I'm pretty sure you can do that in the gui, but I cant remember I always do it from the command line. I can show you how if the gui is a issue. Im almost 99% sure the gui isnt a issue for simple things like that.
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Confirmed you can configure VLANs from the Web GUI. I have a Procurve 2810-24G. I got mine of of ebay for $200 not sure if you are in the used market just wanted to provide a helpful data point.
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Since we're all over the place on this, could you give us some idea of your intended use, availability requirements, and budget?
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You are right Jason: I should have listed those too.
I am serving websites at a colo facility. We host about 80 websites but are considering doing it legitimately, and larger-scale. At the moment it's a single pfsense firewall, a network switch, and some apache servers.
I am aiming at a 99.9% uptime, but not sure what my budget is (it's kind of adhoc: I am moving us away from that). I wish to go to a high availability network (carp firewalls, two switches…). I expect the switch(s) to handle a couple of vlans, and let (r)stp handle issues where a switch goes down. If necessary, it would be nice if the stp on the switch handle stp to/from pfsense.
I could probably be fine using fast ethernet, but I may need to move data between servers, so gigabit is desired.
I guess the biggest thing here is to have a switch that is good enough but not painful to use.
I have been looking around. I looked at both hp and cisco.
the cisco SG200 series appears to be a nice combination of price/functionality/reputation
the hp 1810-24g also looks good.Thanks!
--jason
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99.9% is almost 9 hours of downtime per year. That's a lot.
The SG200-series is pretty far from your original requirements. They're just rebadged parts from the a Linksys acquisition.
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Oh, does that mean a web interface and crappy network performance?
When you say "that's a lot" do you mean "that's a lot of down time" or "that's a lot of uptime"? :)
I certainly haven't chosen the cisco. In fact the cisco, netgear, and HP prices seem to be comparable. Mostly I am putting together some estimates for my boss.
I already have a netgear GS716T in place. I suppose I could just get another one.
–jason
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Brocade ICX 6430
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Oh, does that mean a web interface and crappy network performance?
When you say "that's a lot" do you mean "that's a lot of down time" or "that's a lot of uptime"? :)
I certainly haven't chosen the cisco. In fact the cisco, netgear, and HP prices seem to be comparable. Mostly I am putting together some estimates for my boss.
I already have a netgear GS716T in place. I suppose I could just get another one.
–jason
9 hours annually for network downtime is a lot. Most providers I've worked with guarantee 99.99% network uptime, if not 99.999% or even 100%. It's just not that hard to build a redundant core network.
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Have you looked at Dell PowerConnect? Can get 24-port, Gb, layer 3 switches for under $2k.
Have older 6224 running on SAN duty for over two years with no problems.http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/powerconnect-6200-series/pd?refid=powerconnect-6200-series&baynote_bnrank=0&baynote_irrank=0&~ck=baynoteSearch&isredir=true
Vince
