I have my ebay order coming today
yes, i know these just went EOL which is the reason for the price. I’m running ubiquiti everywhere else for networking. But this is 1/.2 the price of the 8 port SFP+ Ubiquiti (which I also own) and I get 48 10gig SFP+ ports along w/ a few 40gig uplinks that I probably won’t use.
Right now my 10gig Ubiquiti is my “top” switch connected direct to pfsense… I’m going to “hang the arista” off a spare port on the ubiquiti 10gig for now so all traffic stays normal until I can fully learn the arista… then the real benefit comes. The Arista will be my “top” switch and I can run some OM3 that I already have waiting and have 10gig upstairs.
Yes, I know the arista is loud. I have a server / storage room so I don’t care. Yes, it draws 100-200w, but I’m turning off a couple servers so it’s a net zero electric cost.
I plan to read this Amazon.com at least the parts that matter to me (e.g. I don’t need BGP… just basic vlans and maybe take advantage of inter-vlan switching).
Any other suggestions?