Meraki Replace Brocade VDX

[tintravaia]

We are a small team, no network engineers, but we get by. We have two Brocade VDX 6740T layer 3 switches running as our core, which our vmware environment runs over. We are looking to get rid of these Brocade switches and replace them with a product that we can actually administer and get support on. A few years ago we looked into replacing these devices with Meraki, but at the time we were told there was nothing in the product line suitable for our use. I know a lot of new products have been released since then. Has this changed? is there a Meraki product that will suit our needs? 

[PhilipDAth]

I quite like the all 10Gbe switch MS425-16.

https://meraki.cisco.com/products/switches/ms425-16

The MS355-24X2 is also interesting as it has both MGig ports (aka can take 10GBaseT) and some SFP+ ports.

https://meraki.cisco.com/products/switches/ms355-24x2

Next down there is the MS250.  It has 4 x 10Gbe SFP+ ports, and the rest are normal Gigabit ports.  This is the lowest end model that can still take dual redundant power supplies.

https://meraki.cisco.com/products/switches/ms250-24

[hockeydude]

Been running ms420s for years. No problems. L3 routing is a breeze. Port aggregation works fine with vSphere and our "roll your own" storage, though we can easily saturate 10G link.