@danp said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

@bnrstnr Agreed. Or a forum regular that created a new account because they didn't want to be associated with Meraki.

This

@coliver said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

@ubiquiti-user said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

@coliver said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

@ubiquiti-user said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

@wirestyle22 said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

@ubiquiti-user Amazon is not a good judge of cost

But it's a decent place to get comparable pricing versus going to CDW (etc) who may not carry a specific item.

They carry it. You just need to get a quote from them first. I would ask a reseller.

Yeah. . . not yet as I'm sure by the time we're ready to toss out this kit, there will be something better.

Sure, I would have this pricing ready if someone in the organization wants to expand the wireless footprint in the future.

That's the plan, at least. If we need to expand, is it worth purchasing another Meraki unit (and then extending the licensing on everything), doubtful.

@coliver said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

If you don't have a place to run a VM locally then run it on Vultr.

We do, but it's due for a revamp as well

@jaredbusch said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

@ubiquiti-user said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

The physical device would be the USG, correct?

No, you will not have the USG. That is a piece of shit, gimped ERL.

The UniFi Controller is a VM, running Debian 9.1 preferrably.

OK, that was my question. Is there a physical Unifi Controller device, or should it be run as a VM (somewhere).

The physical device would be the USG, correct?

@scottalanmiller said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

@ubiquiti-user said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

Would you guys opt for an onsite controller or a hosted one on vultr for $6/month?

If you ONLY have one site, go on site. If you have more than one, probably go with Vultr.

One site in one building, but there are a few walls in the way. . .

Now @scottalanmiller this doesn't mean we wouldn't add new AP's of ubiquiti's in place of any AP requirements we might have.

But doing a complete gut, just doesn't make sense. (I totally understand the sunk-cost fallacy).

Would you guys opt for an onsite controller or a hosted one on vultr for $6/month?

@scottalanmiller said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

@ubiquiti-user said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

Currently I have a lot of Cisco Meraki equipment with several years left on the licensing so while I can't replace it today, just doesn't make sense,

I've not read the loads of replies, but how does having the licensing still cause it to not make sense to replace? That's a sunk cost that you just have to ignore and go on with normal evaluations. It would be pretty easy for replacing it to end up cheaper than keeping it, even when it is already paid in advance. Not always, but pretty commonly.

Because we don't have any continued cost of licensing, unless we wanted to add AP's or hardware. So, while it was expensive, it was a one time cost for the term of the license, which still has several years left.

@jaredbusch said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

@coliver said in Meraki Replacement Plan:

Offline I recommended this to aggregate switching, if 10Gbe was something that was desired/required in this instance. I believe it is only ~500$.

https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgeswitch-16-xg/

The diagram on that page would be what you'd be looking for specifically.

exactly this.

So get the edgerouter pro, the the edge switch (full sfp) and then gbe edge switches from there for the endpoints. Right?

@jaredbusch Right, getting items confused.

Ignore me.

@jaredbusch hrm...

I was thinking 10bge would be nice for future proofing (as much as I know you shouldn't build for what you may or may not need).

The backbone and servers we're looking at could use the 10gbe . .