Recently I've bought an old Nortel BayStack 5510-48T switch for my homelab project. The switch had a few problems, which fortunately were fixable. The good This is a 48 port managed Gigabit switch, and comes with a nice feature set. They are also cheap to find on eBay, and I paid about 60 euros including shipping for it. The switch still works as expected, and there have been firmware updates up until the beginning of 2015....
One of the main features that Proxmox VE is missing right now, is support for deploying cloud images and configuring them using cloud-init. After having experienced how Amazon AWS and OpenStack handle the deployment of VM's, having to install all VM's manually is something I don't like doing anymore. Luckily, there is a method to achieve the same results on Proxmox (or any other virtualization for that matter). I have created a tool for deploying a cloud image on Proxmox, and the ability to customize it using cloud-init....