Apologies and appreciation upfront.
I’ve been tasked with taking a look at ONIE switching for our 2 rack colo deployment.
The explanation for ONIE is a administration push however I’m hesitant and pushing again.
Whereas I can see the profit for bigger networks, I don’t know that there will likely be sufficient assets to handle it on the present second or if it is smart. (Whether it is simpler than I believe it to be please share your experiences) Additionally licensing prices.
This could be a 1G Fiber uplink for the primary 12 months then it will bump as much as 10G on 12 months two.
Ideally it will be nice to future proof it to an extent. (SFP28 of SFP+ for example.)
EdgeCore and Dell ON sequence are switches which have come up ceaselessly throughout my analysis however haven’t had direct expertise with them prior to now.
General, the switching necessities for the GPU and storage deployment could be as follows:
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Not advanced to handle with no crew of full time community engineers. (1 full time 1 floater at present)
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White field Switching – SONiC (the place potential)
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Not small to minimal licensing prices (Per port is an enormous No-Go)
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One thing that may final for roughly 3-5 years
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Helps 1G Ethernet, SFP28 ports. Might be separate stacked switching. (Most likely would find yourself being a SFP28 uplink, so one thing that has versatile twin goal ports (Down/Uplink) wouldn’t harm.
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BGP help
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Balanced ToR change
Value sensible, the 5-12ok vary is what I’ve been given however room to develop with good purpose.
Wouldn’t it make extra sense to stay with one thing like Meraki that makes preliminary administration straightforward or do you consider the Open Community work is price it in the long term? Is there some kind of a center floor?
I will likely be trustworthy, ONIE is a brand new expertise for me. I’ve finished a number of meraki, older (2017) Cisco L2/3, and AWS deployments however by no means ONIE.
It might be nice to discover a model that gives Lab/Demo gear so It may be evaluated/validated earlier than making a call. (I haven’t been capable of finding any info on EdgeCore lab items)
