The best router is the one that works for you.   If you have a big budget for purchase today and for a lifetime of ongoing maintenance and training, Cisco is a great choice. They are the gold standard.   Personally, I have never needed or been able to justify the expense of…

@Sandeep Pandit Aruba (formerly ProCurve) most recently with LL3 switches being fed by a full L3 switch.  The L3 switch is SPF+ and we use Copper SFP+ cables to connect to servers in the room and put in a SFP+ fiber module for remote connections.  I also looked at Netgear.

Of those mentioned, I have used Aruba and Netgear most recently and they have worked well. If you're not sure if you need an L2 or L3 switch you should also look at "light layer 3" switches which are in between. They are mostly L2 but with the most basic L3 functionality.

Hi @Sandeep Pandit, ​ As a general rule, Layer 2 is faster than Layer 3.   Also, I need to know more details to recommend anything.  

@reviewer1058013 says "in a converged environment, we can grow compute and storage separately" This is a key differentiator, IMHO.  It is also the reason I disagree with those who say hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is less expensive. With HCI, in order to upgrade…

@Dan Reynolds gave a great answer.   Most of it is marketing hype. So you have to dig in to the terms in every case to figure out what that term means to that vendor.  I think of it as "converged" is a virtualized solution with computing, storage, and networking on different…

@RobMooij Mine cost much less than that.

@Evgeny Belenky Link added.

StarWind is really transparent on price. Software cost is on the website, and they will work with you on what hardware you want to run on. 

How will it integrate into your network? Is the management intuitive? When was the NAS hardware released, and how long will it be supported? Is it upgradeable? How flexible is the vendor?  It really sucks to get locked into an inflexible vendor. Insist on references from…

See my review. https://www.itcentralstation.c...