Omada SX3008F, 8 Port 10G SFP+ Enterprise Level L2+ Managed Switch

Put it in a secondary data center network after a failure required replacement, and needed something affordable in a hurry. Was easy to setup and get access. Works great for the price when you need 10GbE SPF+ ports, but not super demanding needs. Didn't stress test it but it has been pushing everything I've thrown at it (1Gbps WAN link). But a few notes to save someone some time.... 1) it doesn't auto detect 1G/10G so you need another switch to use temporarily which supports 10 & 1 GbE, if you PC is not 10GbE, do you can access the GUI. It can be done via the USB console cable and CLI, but just plugging into another switch makes it simple. 2) if setting up VLANS and don't want management on some ports, be sure to remove the main VLAN from those ports. Obvious if you do network management but found out less than obvious to do. 3) had a lot of difficulty getting link to a Cisco router to come up. It was set for 1Gbps/Full Duplex, like the Cisco interface. Eventually figured out I had to change to auto negotiate for duplex. Immediately came up - in full duplex. Lol Only complaint I have was that I couldn't find a way to change the Admin GUI to a different VLAN,to avoid using the base VLAN (1). But certainly not a deal breaker for this application. Don't think I'd put it on a primary role per se, but in our secondary/DR site it provides great cost/ benefit, I think.

Over the last month purchased 3 of these switches (2 in one purchase and 1 more in the second purchase) .... regarding the switches they do the job and no issues with them, and integrated with the Omada controller without any issues. Sadly one of the ports on the the original 2 died. I was expecting the run around in getting it replaced. It was as simple as putting in a return request, then messaging customer support to confirm procedure... and done. It is a two step process, I did have to order a new one, and when it arrived --- returned the one with the damaged port in the same box and refund issued upon receipt.

The equipment works as expected. But, it was offered and sold in Germany, coming with an US power cord.

Pros: Perfect switch for vSAN. Combined with some Intel 10Gb adapters this switch does a great job delivering vSAN traffic for 5 homelab ESXi hosts. Management supports vlan, routing, SNMP, jumbo frames and all features I needed. It was simple to setup SNMP read monitoring in Nagios. Cons: All ports ship configured for 10G. This will need to be configured either from a native 10G SFP+ adapter or from the console. The CLI takes a bit to get used to, but its very similar to Cisco.

The hardware version shipped to me was V1 and it has the latest firmware installed (from Jan. 2024) so it's fairly current. Setting having a USB console interface is nice at it saves trying to find where I put the serial adapter so I wouldn't lose it. Overall this is the second TL-SX3008F I've had and I've been happy with both of them.