Hello everyone,
we are to deploy an Aruba wireless solution for a customer. They told us they had SG300 switches (8 of them) with no PoE. We have decided to replace those switches with HPE1950. It came out that they have 2 stacks of SG500X with 10GbE stacking modules. I am wondering, if there is really a need to replace those switches at all.
1950 seems to have:
half of the packet buffer SG500 has
IRF stacking (altough not mentioned directly); so comparable to Cisco (at least I think so)
similiar switching/forwarding performance, similiar features
liftetime warranty
and they can have a few bucks back by selling their switches along with stacking modules and getting a new solution with warranty. Are there any other important technical information that could affect such a comparison? This is question number one.
The reason the would do such a exchange is central management system. That also leads to a question numer two. As they can not afford switches from provision line that has a full Airwave support, how will the HPE1950 line work with Airwave? What will we able to do: nothing, see switch status, backup configurations or manage the switch?