The lovely v400 cascade issues

[DrankThePurpleS]

Long story short, deployed v400 at access edge. 

Likely stupid questions but need help here. 

Can the control bridge or BPE control v400 over vpn? Didn't think so. 

Rumor has it that XIQ will be able to act as control bridge. Just rumor or fact? Anyway now to control these purple paper weights without adding hardware? 

Lastly, anyone want to purchase 40-60 v400's? 

[Stefan_K_]

V400 aren’t even cheap, they cost roughly the same as X440G2.

I only deployed them once. It worked fine but that’s it.

[DrankThePurpleS]

Lucky!!! ?

I walked into this scenario. I was planning on making the transition to fabric. The more I look at 5520's the more I love them. 

V400's are not even a dumb switch, closer to networking challenged switch.

I get it, it's a cheap, easy to manage deployment. As long as you don't want to do literally anything at the access edge. 

Did you go 450's? 

[FredrikB]

I’m so glad we had a really great demo of the V400 at an early stage. We saw all the weaknesses and bugs early on and opted not to push it to customers. A really great demo 😉 I do hope Extreme faces up to their responsibility and make them work for all the customers that have bought them.

[DrankThePurpleS]

Thanks, that was my worry.