CISCO 3650 Stacking

[rashad.exe]

hi all 

any one can tell me please about StackWise-160 in cisco 3650 it's use to marge two switches or one active and second backup.

i mean if i have two cisco 3650 and used StackWise-160 between switches, the all the servers connected to the first 3650 and the edge switches connected to the second 3650, the StackWise-160 use to transfer data between two 3650 switches?

thanks 

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

Yes, when you stack the two switches together, you only configure the master and all the configs  get pushed from the master to the member using the StackWise cable.

HTH

[rashad.exe]

hi Reza 

thanks for your answer 

i know it but my question about the data transfer, i will tell you my scenario:

i have 8 edge switches connected to two 3650 by SFP interface (each 3650 connected to 4 edge switch ) and two 3650 stacked  , some server connected to the first 3650 and some server connected to the second 3650, the 8 switches can access all the server and transfer data by Stacking wise cable??

i hope you understand what i mean if you want i will draw my scenario

thanks  

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

Yes, your scenario would work fine.  If you can, for redundancy, I would uplink each server to both 3560s.  This way, if you have a switch failure you don't lose any servers or if you have a NIC failure to one switch you still have another NIC to the other switch.

HTH

[rashad.exe]

hi Reza 

you can find in the attachment file network diagram for what i mean 

group B connected to second 3650 by SFP 

group A connected to First 3650 by SFP 

ERP server connected to the second 3650 

i mean can group A access to the ERP server by Stack wise160 ??

thanks 

[Reza Sharifi]

i mean can group A access to the ERP server by Stack wise160 ??

Yes, absolutely.

Think of a stack of switches as one logical switch.  No matter which one you connect to, they all can access each other.

HTH

[rashad.exe]

hi Reza 

now i understand what you mean about stack wise 

thanks for your answer 

have nice day