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Ganymede is an Aruba Instant On 1930 8G 2SFP L2+ managed Ethernet Switch which I bought in 2021 to replace the decidedly ancient and far too power hungry Cisco Catalyst 3750G (C3750G-24TS-S) that had been the main switch in 2020.
While I wasn't pleased about it being manufactured by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), at the time I was adamant that I wanted something I could manage and that wasn't Cisco. It has two choices - cloud or local. Initially it was used with cloud management. Eventually I pulled it out of my network and replaced it with a dumb switch for a while, but it has recently been reconnected and is now the core switch once again. The only difference is that it is running in local management mode, ensuring that even once this switch reaches end-of-life it will not be bricked by a dependency on cloud management.
It's quite compact for what it is and appears to run on an Arm SoC, which contributes to it pulling next to no power compared to the Catalyst it replaced. It's also minuscule compared to the Catalyst, which was designed to fit in a standard server rack and was also 1.5 rack units tall.
It's served well and I expect it to be pretty sturdy. I do regret buying a white switch, though. It shows dirt so easily...