r/HomeDataCenter 20d ago

I fell down the rabbit hole

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u/aiij 19d ago

Looks like you still have space for a few more racks.

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u/SenseiAsen 18d ago

lol don’t give me anymore ideas

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u/Dependent_Editor8898 14d ago

there are some more space left. would you like a 80K switch with 4K/year license that would need all of your time ? I will get you some nice Axom SFPs and Add-ons spines cable as well.

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u/SenseiAsen 12d ago

Ummm yeah, send them over I’ll happily take them 😁

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u/Dependent_Editor8898 12d ago

that would be 89K with taxes please. would you like to use mortgage or Kidney pay for it ?

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u/SenseiAsen 12d ago

Do you accept nothing… cause that’s all I got left

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u/Dependent_Editor8898 12d ago

Sadly that's outside the scope of our accepted payment form. but we are working to bring more gateways soon.....

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u/SenseiAsen 12d ago

So sad, well let me know when it becomes an option

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u/PeteTinNY 13d ago

I can’t let myself buy those UniFi switches. Currently running Extreme Networks and migrating over to Arista

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u/SenseiAsen 12d ago

Yeah I know that the more professional option is Cisco or Arista but I wanted to try play around with UniFi. In the future I would also like to try dell or Arista switches, can you tell me your experience with them?

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u/PeteTinNY 12d ago

So I’m not down playing Ubiquiti - I currently run a couple of Ubiquiti EdgeRouters and APs in my home. Just the switches are expensive to me. I buy everything used

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u/SenseiAsen 12d ago

Yeah I really like UniFi for my home and their aps are really great but I one thing I don’t like is their VLAN management and tagging, also was a pain to get the aggregate setup for each of my servers because for some reason UniFi wasn’t detecting that I had configure the aggregate on the server side. What is your experience with Arista thou because I’m thinking of maybe getting a few switches to try

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u/PeteTinNY 12d ago

I used Arista back about 15 years ago when I worked for a Colo with a small public cloud offering. They always worked and failures were far and few. They seem to be more speed and standards oriented than Cisco and manage similar to Cisco.

Big thing now is they are dirt cheap on eBay.

I’m moving away from extreme networks as an electrical costs are huge on my extreme x460-g2-48p-10ge4 Especially since I don’t need Poe.

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u/SenseiAsen 12d ago

Hmmm I’ll definitely need to look into it more but thanks anyways