Hi,

I have been using 10G for the last 6 years now, it has been working great but some workloads will require faster speed. This is not a normal homelab, more of an networking homelab for broadcasting

So I’m looking at a numer of options, mellanox, brocade, Nvidia, mikrotik etc. they are great but the depth is troublesome, it needs to be <19" depth to fit in my closet. I also would like to have 8 100G ports.

CRS504-4XQ-IN seems to be closest to what I want, but I’d like to get a few more port, to connect as much as I can with 100G.

I’m also considering 2x25G to start with, but seems equally hard to find decent switches with above criteria. Anyone running >10G in your homelab?

  • klui@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Some switches provide flexibility in how you can mount their ears so the switch can stick out more in order to fit rack constraints.

    A more pricey switch like the Arista DCX-7060CX-32s has a depth of only 16". A lot of Aristas are shallow depth. Mellanox switches could in theory be as shallow but it looks like the depth is dictated by their PSUs.

    • kY2iB3yH0mN8wI2h@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Arista DCX-7060CX-32s has a depth of only 16". A lot of Aristas are shallow depth.

      Actually I didn’t know that, we have a few Arista as work but I never looked at the depth. They are quite perfect in terms of dimensions at least

      A more pricey switch

      yea, ouch! §6k and upwards, sure I dont mind spending thousands but that is out of my league. My main use-case is to get rid of fiber channel, but I’d get a 16Gbit/s or 32Gbit/s FC switch for that :)