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If its just a few ports, this ones is good and cheap AF
Yep, mikrotik is the best for low end.
Juniper. SFP+ unless you need RJ45.
We need at least 24 ports or preferably 48 ports even stackable would be better I would say.
What models and price range do you recommend?
Ubiquity can be also a good switch.
https://www.ui.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-2448/
Depends on the requirements. Are you looking to feed them with something bigger, i.e. 40G or 100G uplink to aggregation layer, or another switch ?
Thinking to have two 40G switches on the storage rack on aggregate level, and feed each compute rack one feed from each switch to one 10G with 40G switch on Compute rack
I like the interface but it is not 10G switch.
Arista, sfp+. They are very cheap (if we're talking about ebay) and reliable.
Arista 7050S-52 are reliable and not too expensive
Ups.. they have some models with 10g port, but i think they are max 16 ports that switches. Im using ubiquity for i think 3 years with no issues.
You're talking EOL.
Something like QFX5110-48S should be sweet.
How's the management interface?
Ya i’m using QFX5xx since 2018 working great no issue so far.
Its not bad, Cisco style. Would be great for what you need it for
Always liked the EX4500/EX4550. We had much better luck with the EX series than QFX.
Ex4500 - EOL
EX4550 will need additional modules for uplink which brings the cost up but it's not a bad platform at all.
This one looks good.
Really robust unit. Highly recommend it.
TISSU on the QFX series have been awesome. Running a few QFX5100s without any major issues, although the software is a little... "interesting" sometimes compared to the EX series.
That said, the newer Arista switches also have awesome density at comparable, if not lower prices sometimes. Or, you could use that to nudge a Juniper rep to give you better pricing.
If you're looking for something on the used market without support, as mentioned above, the 7050 Aristas' can't really be beat.
The Buffalo RJ45 switches are generally the cheapest on the market, but the fan in mine is the loudest equipment in my apartment. I'll probably replace it with an aftermarket one, one of these days.
One thing I've learned is that it always pays to invest into the best networking gear for your stack. Hard to beat the Juniper EX series for 10gbit distribution. As I mentioned earlier we played with some QFX units but ran into too many problems and abandoned the units in favor for the tried and true EX4550.
Nice, I am between Juniper and Arista. Which one?
I have very little experience with Arista so I am not a good judge of their equipment.
That said ColoCrossing moved to Juniper exclusively at the core/edge/distribution years ago and it was an excellent choice. High, highly recommend Juniper products.
We continued to use a mix of Juniper and Brocade at the top of rack and have since recently moved all new provisions to Juniper at the TOR.
EX4550 would be a good option. Expansion module capability is a plus.