(Appologies - I know this ended up in the wrong sub forum - mis click that I didnt notice 
, if a mod could move it - be much aappreciated)
Hi all,
I work from home as a music producer and also do IT contract work and am in the process of setting up some supporting infrastructure at home to support these activities.
So as part of that Im looking at various small smart switches - two prime candidates being netgear GS108T-200 (the new model) and the Cisco SM2008.
At this time my number 1 reasn for looking at advanced smart switches is purely for link agregation support. VLans, security, Qos are not really consideration at this time, but might be later. PoE isnt somethign I need right now either, but might do later (for IP cameras).
As oftten the case, this lot is an expansion of existing bits bits and peices - BT infinity hub, lattest apple airport base sation extreme and an old netgear consumer 10/100 dumb switch along with a 1Gb ethenet wired PC, an old 1GB ethernet wired non-raid NAS and a heap of wifi gear that connected in via the airport and a network printer - ie all common home stuff. None of these need anything advanced.
What I am ading is a large windows 2008 hyper-v server to facilitate software development and testing that will be running a load of virrtual machines and a QNAP TS-459 Pro 2 (or the 6 bay version) which is coming out next month. My research suggest that this is probably the most suitable NAS for my needs.
The QNAP NAS will have a bunch of duties - home itunes streaming, time machine and windows backups from the PC and a mac book pro that are used in the studio, general file server for installers and other stuff and hopefully as iSCSI targets for the virtual machines running on the hyper-v box (ie when local stagae is insufficient). This is where the Link agregation comes in as I want try running a pair of 1GB links between the switch and NAS and between the switch and hyper-v box just to reduction network contension.
I am tending toward the netgear box (asuming the cisco is a rebaged linksys box) - what are people's experiences with these switches in this kind of context?
Im quite comfortable with ultra high end high capacity enterprise equivalents of these things, but am completely clueless about the implementation reliability of these low end small business switches, so appreciate any thoughts and/or suggestions of alternatives to consider.
Thanks all
K
, if a mod could move it - be much aappreciated)Hi all,
I work from home as a music producer and also do IT contract work and am in the process of setting up some supporting infrastructure at home to support these activities.
So as part of that Im looking at various small smart switches - two prime candidates being netgear GS108T-200 (the new model) and the Cisco SM2008.
At this time my number 1 reasn for looking at advanced smart switches is purely for link agregation support. VLans, security, Qos are not really consideration at this time, but might be later. PoE isnt somethign I need right now either, but might do later (for IP cameras).
As oftten the case, this lot is an expansion of existing bits bits and peices - BT infinity hub, lattest apple airport base sation extreme and an old netgear consumer 10/100 dumb switch along with a 1Gb ethenet wired PC, an old 1GB ethernet wired non-raid NAS and a heap of wifi gear that connected in via the airport and a network printer - ie all common home stuff. None of these need anything advanced.
What I am ading is a large windows 2008 hyper-v server to facilitate software development and testing that will be running a load of virrtual machines and a QNAP TS-459 Pro 2 (or the 6 bay version) which is coming out next month. My research suggest that this is probably the most suitable NAS for my needs.
The QNAP NAS will have a bunch of duties - home itunes streaming, time machine and windows backups from the PC and a mac book pro that are used in the studio, general file server for installers and other stuff and hopefully as iSCSI targets for the virtual machines running on the hyper-v box (ie when local stagae is insufficient). This is where the Link agregation comes in as I want try running a pair of 1GB links between the switch and NAS and between the switch and hyper-v box just to reduction network contension.
I am tending toward the netgear box (asuming the cisco is a rebaged linksys box) - what are people's experiences with these switches in this kind of context?
Im quite comfortable with ultra high end high capacity enterprise equivalents of these things, but am completely clueless about the implementation reliability of these low end small business switches, so appreciate any thoughts and/or suggestions of alternatives to consider.
Thanks all
K
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