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Zak · ‎Nov 5 2019

Thanks @Nash ! I read through the document you linked and we definitely need MX250. You guessed campus situation correctly, that is the plan for now but I will get something going for L3 switches also. Really appreciate your input!

Zak · ‎Nov 1 2019

Good to know! If I just continue our current setup, we will have just 6 VLANs to cover our requirements for now. The only time we see heavy inter VLAN traffic is when we are pushing images to client machines, which we are also working on to make image deployments thinner and add on applications later. Other times, it will be just providing internet to everyone and basics like dhcp relays, DNS etc.

Zak · ‎Nov 1 2019

Thank you @PhilipDAth I actually read a lot of your answers as a lurker before joining community and purchasing equipment. MS425-16 were exactly what was on my radar, we will be going roughly 3-4 switch in roughly 4-5 buildings. I have same question for you actually, would it be less hassle to get started with just mx and then some time next year we add MS425-16?

Zak · ‎Nov 1 2019

@Nash lol @ "Friends don't let friends use MX to route in large environments." So this means Meraki sales personnel weren't my friends? so we had design discussion also, it was one of those scenarios where we had to meet certain budget and L3 switch was going to add a lot of additional cost. Minimum, we will go is 25 switches and yes, as of now, the plan is to use just MX. In your experience, would it be terribly difficult to start with MX and then add L3 switch when we get more money/grants etc?

Zak · ‎Nov 1 2019

Thanks @NolanHerring So seems like MX64 is a no brainer. I think our environment will have more MR55 than 45, so I should stick with 55. So I am not going to pretend I 100% understand the utility of physical stacking in our environment, but so far there are no such plan. Since this is educational org, we mostly have students and classrooms to deal with. With that being said, I am hoping I don't need the same exact model when it comes to switches and can just get by with an 8 port MS120?

Zak · ‎Nov 1 2019

Hello Good folks, I am very new to Meraki equipment and have worked with HP and Ubiquiti before (Successfully manged to stay away from relatively complex networking setups up until now). I was just wondering what type of test lab environment folks here have setup to test configurations before pushing them out to production? Or do you just go direct to production? Or is there a software ( I googled and found packet tracer for cisco) that I am not aware of? Whats the minimum recommended gear/model that can be used to test most of the Meraki features? Our production environment will roughly have: 1 x MX100 or MX250 50 x MR45 or MR 55 30 x MS125 Some of the features we will use: Content filtering, RADIUS authentication, Windows DHCP, port scheduling, VPN, traffic shaping etc. Thanks

Zak · ‎Oct 25 2019

Hello All, I am Zak. Work as sysadmin/network admin. I don't have any previous Meraki experience, however, very excited to be adding a lot of devices soon to our environment.

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