HA With switches

Francesco Provino

Any opinion on Dell all-sfp switches? The "S" series...

Dashrender

@Francesco-Provino said in HA With switches:

Any opinion on Dell all-sfp switches? The "S" series...

Doesn’t Ubiquiti have those too?

scottalanmiller

@Francesco-Provino said in HA With switches:

Any opinion on Dell all-sfp switches? The "S" series...

Doesn’t Ubiquiti have those too?

Yes, but only low density. They max out at 12 ports.

hobbit666

Another things that got me confused. SPF+ modules.
I can see Ubiquiti SPF+ 10G MultiMode modules are £40 odd for a 2 pack.

But a Fibre module for Netgear are £200+ each

Aruba £600 odd

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said in HA With switches:

Another things that got me confused. SPF+ modules.
I can see Ubiquiti SPF+ 10G MultiMode modules are £40 odd for a 2 pack.

But a Fibre module for Netgear are £200+ each

Aruba £600 odd

Just normal differences in pricing.

hobbit666

@scottalanmiller That's a big ass difference

travisdh1

@hobbit666 said in HA With switches:

@scottalanmiller That's a big ass difference

Looks like about normal to me. Yes, big difference in price for the same thing.

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said in HA With switches:

@scottalanmiller That's a big ass difference

Yup, that's how vendors typically are.

If you think that's something, compare a Ubiquiti router to a slower Cisco. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in HA With switches:

@hobbit666 said in HA With switches:

@scottalanmiller That's a big ass difference

Yup, that's how vendors typically are.

If you think that's something, compare a Ubiquiti router to a slower Cisco. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

Last I looked it was Ubiquiti $200 to a Cisco $7000. The Ubiquiti being usable, the Cisco questionable, just looking at the processors used.

PhlipElder

@hobbit666 said in HA With switches:

Another things that got me confused. SPF+ modules.
I can see Ubiquiti SPF+ 10G MultiMode modules are £40 odd for a 2 pack.

But a Fibre module for Netgear are £200+ each

Aruba £600 odd

SFP can be for copper or fibre. It can be active and passive with active pushing the signal further. Those are the differences between the modules IIRC.

dave_c

@hobbit666
My colleagues have used https://www.fs.com/?main_page=advanced_search_result&keyword=SFP successfully. Take a look

hobbit666

@dave_c yeah did see them and was considering using them if I don't use EdgeSwitches

StorageNinja

@PhlipElder said in HA With switches:

We've deployed a lot of the SG500x series stackable switches with a few weird behaviours depending on how they are set up. Many of them fronted the disaggregate clusters mentioned above.

They didn't implement PVSTP properly.

hobbit666

Think i've got this down to 3 possible switch that meet the requirments:-
(rough pricing )

2x Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 48 Port - £920ea
1 pack of 10G Transceivers - £35
2x RJ45 10G Transceivers - £62ea
Total - £2000

2x HP 1950-48G - £1230ea
2x 10G-SR Transceivers - £600ea
*Don't need any Transceivers for the one in same building as it as 10G copper already
Total - £3660

2x Netgear S3300 - £1020ea
2x 10G-SR Transceivers - £238ea
Again already has 10G Copper.
Total - £2516

I see we can get "compatible" Transceivers to reduce costs to:-
HP £16ea - £2492
Netgear £13ea - £2066