Nice little switch for ESX

I’m currently building a little self-contained two server appliance for a client and one of the things we were looking for was a small 8 port switch capable of handling trunked VLANs, and inexpensive enough that we could include two for redundancy.

After some poking around the interwebs, we ran across the SLM2008 from Cisco (!) which is perfect. Cheap here in France at around 85€ street price this is a great little switch that is perfectly capable of handling not only port level VLAN assignment, but also VLAN trunking. LACP and static aggregation are supported along with some basic QoS configuration possibilities as well.

It appears that this is actually an older Linksys model rebranded by Cisco, but somehow in the deal the price dropped along the way.

I highly recommend it for building a small ESX lab or just need a few ports with VLAN capabilities without jumping up into the high port counts and higher prices.