How many devices in a VLAN?

[Mr.Ben]

As the title says!

 

How many devices would you fellow edugeekers have in a VLAN/Subnet?

 

Cheers, Ben

[newpersn]

This is out address leases. Not maxed out yet.Over 8 vlans.

 

1: 15 servers

2: 25-220 (main block 1) ground floor

3: 25-220 (main block 2) 1st floor

4: 20-230 (it block)

5: 40-220 (music and finance)

6: not sure

7: 20-230 (wireless and phones)

 

We had a loop back a few weeks over 2 vlans. Mixed 2 address up.

 

Dc, dchp, dns running on each vlan.

Edited September 4, 2012 by newpersn

[twin--turbo]

entirely depends on what the devices are, what they are doing, how good the switch is at processing the packets and pushing them out, the port speed, the client lan adapter, how much broadcast traffic goes on, etc....

 

Our main client vlan has ~600 devices on it, but not concurrent and 80% are thin clients simply.

 

Rob

[cpjitservices]

Well I think there is a limit of how many VLANs you can actually have and I think it's 4096 not that you'd ever need that many!, The biggest network I've worked on had 7,500 devices plugged into the network (including remote locations) and that was over I think 30 VLAN's, and in a VLAN there would be sub VLAN's it was a great mind boggle at first.

 

Currently though at our main office we have 4 VLANs -

 

:Office

:Phones

:Wifi

:Guest

 

It all depends really on how your network has been designed, not every network needs VLAN's.

[Destinova]

As most have pointed out it really depends on what is occupying the vlan(s). Some would argue that any single vlan should be isolated to a single switch.