6500 redundancy with VSS

[jturpin]

If you have a pair of 6500's running VSS with your VSL link on a seprate line card not the sup engines can you pull out the standby supervisor and continue to pass traffic on the switch with the pulled sup?

[mchin345]

Yes you can do , make sure you enabled and disabled the necessary settings.

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Virtual Switching System (VSS) 1440

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps9336/prod_white_paper0900aecd806ee2ed.html

[scwillis4655]

According to the link you gave, if you lose the standby sup you lose the standby switch interfaces. So no traffic passes through the stanby switch, or am I reading that wrong.

[a.alekseev]

No, you cannot.

You must have 2 sups for VSS to work.

If you pull out the standby supervisor from the chassis, this part of the VSS switch will stop forwarding traffic.