Hello
I really like the idea of the Meraki cloud switches. However worried about all the terrible reviews they getting with stacking failures and routing issues and so on. So wary about recommending them for my customer.
They will be stacked and handle the vLan routing. They will connect to many HP E2620 PoE switches over single trunks.
The HP trunks have been configured with dot1q encapsulation and have vLan 1 running over them(apparent some issue if native wasn't running over the link or different.) And then the rest of the 8+- vlans.
Can someone asure me they will work and be reliable?
Thank you
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I just put a pair of MS250 switches in for a network core a month ago. They have been working fine.
With regard to linking into other vendors like HP - make sure you have a loop free layer 2 design. You mention you have single trunks, so that will be fine. If you want to use multiple trunks to a single HP switch then use LACP to bond them together.
You will love the monitoring that Meraki gives you by having Meraki core switches.
@Robertsonwrote:
Can someone asure me they will work and be reliable?
Thank you
I suggest you apply fr a couple of loan switches and see what happens in your environment under realistic conditions.
I agree with @Uberseehandel, loan switches are the only way to know for sure. We have MS250's as the core in one of our environments and they work without issues. We had some issues early on with our MS425 stack but sounded like most of that has been resolved with firmware. When you have stacked switches it always makes firmware updates a little more tricky too.
I just put a pair of MS250 switches in for a network core a month ago. They have been working fine.
With regard to linking into other vendors like HP - make sure you have a loop free layer 2 design. You mention you have single trunks, so that will be fine. If you want to use multiple trunks to a single HP switch then use LACP to bond them together.
You will love the monitoring that Meraki gives you by having Meraki core switches.