Aruba Instant On switches - Any good?

[fiza]

I am looking to replace an old HP A5120-48G EI switch and was looking at the Aruba Instant On JL686A 1930 switch. It comes with 48 ports and POE+ and 10G SFP+ ports for less than £800.

It will be an edge switch carrying voice and data so is there anything wrong with buying a 1930? It seems so much cheaper than a standard Aruba switch with 10G SFP+ ports no PoE!!

[timbo343]

Ive got some. They are good but run a little warm.

[Jcx500]

Yeah they are good value for money.

 

If you like using switches via cli these don’t have that functionality. You either have local gui mgmt or cloud mgmt

[computer_expert]

I've got an 8 port 1930 and I really miss the CLI. I find the local UI cumbersome especially when using VLANs (not sure what the cloud portal is like for switches as you lose a large number of features when linked to the cloud).

[Aprice]

I think they're a good value 'low' end switch, I'd probably prefer one in most cases to something like a TP Link. That said I massively prefer a CLI, I just find it so much faster to SSH or console in and get all the info I need from a couple of quick commands, hitting the tab key a few times along the way.

 

 

Did find the whole Cloud / local a bit messy, would have much rather been able to use both if the cloud limitations have to be accepted. It has been a while now since I've used one so stuff may have changed.

[synaesthesia]

Decent quality and performance; absolutely diabolical UI! The VLAN configuration is enough to make you give up IT, relocate to nepal and live as a goat.

[ssouth]

Very good for the price, no complaints from me other than they run a bit hot - not sure why they haven't put a couple of decent fans in it.

 

Strangely enough I really like the UI and find setting up VLANS, general config etc really simple - and I'm no switch wizard.

[synaesthesia]

Very good for the price, no complaints from me other than they run a bit hot - not sure why they haven't put a couple of decent fans in it.

 

Strangely enough I really like the UI and find setting up VLANS, general config etc really simple - and I'm no switch wizard.

 

With some luck, they've updated and fixed them It still seems odd that they'd deviate away from the UI's used on other devices; simply enough to do even with differing operating systems, but when nomenclatures differ it gets confusing. From what I remember, it was the PVID and native vlan settings which were really odd!

[ssouth]

We've recently bought some 1930, 1960 and 6100 models and the UI is different on all of them.

[whartomt01]

Anyone seen Instant on with 2.5Gbe ports. Find it strange they offer 2.5gbe AP but not the switch to run them