Showing posts with label switch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label switch. Show all posts

Thursday, February 07, 2013

Network switch for my lab - Netgear GS724T-300

The last hardware upgrade on my vSphere lab was the SSD, but in addition to that I've been in need of a descent switch for a while.  What I wanted, was a Cisco 2960-S.  Not only are they good, but they're also my top-of-rack standard switch in my vSphere deployments.  However, in spite of diligently trolling Ebay looking for a deal, I decided to opt for a Netgear GS724T-300 for the home lab... which is a 24-port gigabit managed switch, supporting 802.1q VLAN tagging, link aggregation, etc.  Most of all, it's affordable at $219.  While not of any consequence in my environment, they're silent, which doesn't hurt.