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[M4300] M4300-24X24F (XSM4348S) Stacking, new environment, other brand switches
Good morning all, For the company I work for I am currently desinging a brandnew IT environment. This will be based on Hyper-V, Windows Server 2016 with S2D. It will consist of 2 hosts, each supplied with 4x 10GbE SFP+ (each server has 2 Mellanox ConnectX-4 2x25GbE cards) The core switches will be 2 stacked M4300-24X24F switches. There will be other switches for desktops, AP's and cameras which have to be connected to this stack We also have several VLAN's to separate our business network and various wireless net works and guest networks, as well as our phone system. Our current network is a so-called star network: 1 central switch (HP 1910 48-port, little bit undersized, with a 17Gbps switching capacity.....) All servers direct on this switch 3 very old HP PoE switches for the desktops and phones, each connected with 2 port copper LAG/LACP (2 VLANs) 2 other HP PoE (HP 1920-24G-PoE+ (180W)) switches, each connected with 2 port SFP LAG/LACP (5 VLANs) Now comes the issue/problem/question Now ofcourse the current servers and current "core" switch will disappear so: can I connect those other switches to the stack somehow? (2 of them are in hard to reach places..., and it will save me 7000 euros also if I choose for additional M4300 switches...) can I still use VLAN's? I read something that VLAN's cannot be used with a Leaf-Spine setup? Or am I misunderstanding things? regarding Windows Server 2016 I don't need to set up any distributed LACP, thanks to the build-in NIC teaming Windows has, so no issue here So what can I do to make this all work? Or should I convince the management to invest in additional switches, and if so, what kind of (S3300 series?)?