Real 10 Gigabit Networking at Home and on a Budget

Want a ten gigabit network at home but dont want to shell out major bucks on a new switch? Old enterprise gear to the rescue! I go over some of the ups and downs with reusing this equipment as well as the setup process for the Cisco UCS 6120xp for basic switching.

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[overclock]

If you want 10GB here is my recommendation. Looking for the Dell PowerConnect 5524/p (P for POE). It cost about 80$ on eBay. It has 2 sfp+ 10Gb for uplink and 2 HDMI connectors for tacking. It has web UI very ez to use and config. If you need more then 2 SFP+ 10GB buy another one and tack it. Power consumption is about 50w for non POE model and very quiet.

[BarnAgain]

Having the same spelling issues I rely on the shortcut commands in the CLI. Older versions let you just type sho (for show) and int (for interface) etc. Much faster and the tab key will help you also. After you type enough characters hit tab and it will fill in the word. Thanks for the demo!

[aaronchristensen]

If you need 10G Base T and a lot of them arista 7050t can be had on eBay in 36-64 ports. Like cisco gear it's enterprise so cli and a but loud but good documentation and not too bad to get going, took me a little bit to find the right config for a basic setup, if you are wanting vlans and the like it may take a bit longer depending on how familiar you are with setting up a layer 3 switch.

[llothar]

10 Gbit? I want skip this and go to enterprise level and use 40Gbit now.

[weatherman]

I"m considering buying a Cisco Nexus 10Gb switch

[AllenPendleton]

the gui is crap on all Cisco's I have seen. I always just console in the config my Cisco gear.

[delta]

I cant find anything online as to why Cisco forces you to buy a port license upgrade on a piece of hardware you bought and payed for. Otherwise don't have those ports in the hardware. Its like buying a pencil and having to pay for it to be sharpened to use the lead you already payed for? WTF???

[notpublic]

Two years later... Enter Microtik, 10Gbe is not this bad anymore. :)

[vaughn]

Make it easy for you: Quanta LB6M 10GbE 24-Port SFP+ 4x 1GbE L2/L3 $200 to $400 it's easy to set up or if you want a switch just open the box and set it up

[guywhoknows]

Quick tip....
You can buy a microtik 10g and there quiet as well.

Regular size too...

I love that I commented and said about old commercial tech... Not for network...

Do you know you can buy dual port for peer to peer or link..

[blankphoto]

most rackmount enterprise level stuff will lower the fans if both power supplies are plugged in.

[RegentLemay_FullReg]

I would like to Know if you use your 6120xp as a bridge in your server rack And if it work as we expect?

[RegentLemay_FullReg]

Hi, first thank for your good work. i just buy one n10-6100xp with 12 lincences. now i reset admin password and a do a new setup. i configue all port eth-uplink. i try to puty dac cable cisco 2 meter and on the gui it tell me "sfp fail recognized" and stay red. i would like to know if you hook up your fabric swith on your home lab. and you do that? need your help.

[flowcom]

What I do to connect to the WEB UI on older equipment, is run a windows 7 virtual machine with an older version of java. You can get an old version at oldapps.com I never update it and works like a champ on old my older equipment, Dell 2950 iDrac, Brocade 5300. Give it a shot. Let me know . Great video, I'm going to get a 6120 and try this.

[rigurat]

I ended up getting a Netgear 10 gigabit switch. Best thing ever, none of that setup and configuration drama.

[jonpaul]

Can I not install 2 or more dual (or quad) port SFP+ NICS (maybe mellanox cards because they cheap) in my Server and use something like pfsense(maybe virtualized) to do the routing ??

[Alqbilal]

Does this switch support VLANs and LACP?

[MatthewHill]

Per-port licensing? Software locked SFP+ modules? What the FUCK, Cisco?

[RegentLemay_FullReg]

Thank's i now had buy one this month, i should receive it by mid of week. I hope you be able to help me if i need. See you

[ThePred]

omfg surely you can get quieter fans for it