Small Business Series switch features

[Nicholas Beard]

Cisco Small Business SG300

Cisco Small Business SGE2000

Both these switches support Inter VLAN routing and static routes and are significantly cheaper alternatives than the Cisco 3560 series.  Can anybody confirm if either of these switches can perform HSRP? Also, can anybody confirm if VLANs can load balanced for these switches?

Thanks

[IAN WHITMORE · Accepted solution]

SG300:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps10898/data_sheet_c78-610061.html

No HSRP or VRRP.

You can rate limit per vlan.

SGE2000:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps9967/ps9984/data_sheet_c78-502072.html

No HSRP or VRRP.

You can rate limit per vlan.

HTH,

Ian

[Nicholas Beard]

Ian,

Thanks for the reply and the product spec sheets.  I guess im limited to non redundant routing protocols if I choose to go with these switches.  As for the VLAN's, it was not rate limiting that I was looking for particularly.  It was more to do with configuring the spanning tree to alternate the switches to be root for specific VLAN's.  For example, if I had 6 VLAN's configured I could set the spanning tree root to switch#1 for VLAN's 1,2 and 3 and the secondary root for 4,5 and 6.  I could then alternate this for Switch#2.

I know this is easy to perform on the 2900 series switches with the following command -

Switch #1

spanning-tree vlan 1,2,3 root primary

spanning-tree vlan 4,5,6 root secondary

Switch#2

spanning-tree vlan 4,5,6 root primary

spanning-tree vlan 1,2,3 root secondary

I could then create a Layer 3 link between the switches to perform routing via SVI's.  This would intelligently send traffic to Switch#1 for VLAN's 1,2,3 and Switch#2 for VLAN's 4,5,6 and route outbound to an upstream router.

Any ideas if this can be done with either the SGE2000 or the SG300?

[IAN WHITMORE]

That is simple enough But not sure if you can on these switches (you can't if they're stacked for sure). I don't have access to the SG300 anymore (I used to manage a couple but anyway they were stacked).

It seems reasoanble to assume you could afterall they support the STP protocols and it would just be a question of changing the priorities...but where budget and money is involved, assuming is not enough...

Does anyone else know for sure?