Netgear GS748Tv4 smart/L2+ switch with VLANs, routing and DHCP relay

[Shad]

I currently have a Netgear GS724T and a Cisco SG300-10 running my network. The only reason the Cisco is there is to provide L3 routing, DHCP relay between VLANs and ACLs, and it's just trunked to the Netgear. I've just bought a Netgear GS748Tv4 to replace the 24 port switch for more capacity, and it turns out it does most of what the Cisco is doing for me (i.e. multiple IPv4 interfaces and static routes). However, I can't see any options for DHCP relay or 'option 82', although there is a 'DHCP Filtering' section.

My question is basically can I do everything I need to using the one Netgear GS748T? The DHCP servers (failover pair) have scopes for 3 VLANs/subnets and sit in a vSphere cluster on trunked ports from the switch. Will I perhaps need to add additional nics to the VMs to sit in each VLAN as needed, rather than using relaying? I'd like to avoid doing that if possible.

Help appreciated

 

[Shad]

Compared to the Cisco, the ACL stuff is a bit weak since you can't assign lists to VLANs, only to IP addresses/subnets or mac addresses. But otherwise, discounting the missing DHCP relay/IP helper, it would do the job. Seems the routing is a relatively recent addition via firmware, maybe it will get fleshed out over time.

But for now I agree, will stick with the Cisco for the L3 stuff. It's worked very well so far.

Cheers