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it_user147849<\/a>Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees<\/span><\/div>
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Unfortunately the 1910\'s were numerous and were redeployed \"not my\n
choice\" the product familiarity in the UK is an issue as despite the\n
cost they are not a popular product, I have come across all kinds of kit\n
entrasys, extreme, avaya, huawei, zte etc but finding people to support\n
these products is like finding unicorns. <\/p>\n\n

The STP side of things isnt a huge shock as I have had to dig deep into\n
that kind of thing for CCIE switching knowledge and it doesnt worry me!\n
Just inconvenient when you know theres something else that works\n
straight out of the can. <\/p>\n\n

Management MIBs, alarms and all the usual are quite good now! The\n
strange thing being you can still see traces of 3COM in certain aspects,\n
the one other thing I found a little odd was the stacking feature which\n
when compared to cisco is not what I would class as best of breed. <\/p>\n\n

I thank myself lucky that the market for enterprise class equipment is\n
pretty much cisco\'s realm and that I don\'t deal with these variations on\n
a theme that often .<\/p><\/div>

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The 1910 series are really a SOHO switch but they do most of what many organisations need and are absurdly cheap. The downside is that they cripple the UI. <\/p>\n\n

GVRP is somewhat clunky but it is the standard (whereas Cisco VTP is easier but proprietary); similarly MSTP (if you run it) can also be painful compared to PVST+ (which HP have licensed from Cisco but not for the 1910s). <\/p>\n\n

HP Trunks are pretty trivial once you get used to them; just make sure that if you have 1910s that you use LACP rather than the native trunks or you\'ll have issues getting them to fully establish. <\/p>\n\n

I can\'t comment regarding support in your local area (I live in Sydney) but overall there is somewhat a dearth of decent HP engineers. I have provided remote support into countries like Malaysia and I\'m sure that you could probably find other engineers that would offer the same service.<\/p><\/div>

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On my current project we are using 3800 core, 5400 dist and 1910 access on a newly deployed LAN. We have circa 1000+ ports across around 35 switches.<\/p>\n\n

Overall they represent good value for money but coming from a cisco world I find vlan propagation \"GVRP\" and trunking to be rather clunky, the web only interface for the 1910 is a pain \"I know about the extended commands via serial\" and telnet access would make life easier.<\/p>\n\n

Management and access control are quite straight forward \"MS NPS and Solarwinds\" but config backups especially for the 1910\'s are a pain.<\/p>\n\n

The big issue for me would be finding support if your network guy walked! not many contractors know their way around them and that could blow away any cost saving you made by going with HP.<\/p>\n\n

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