IOS vs IOS XE

[Kenny CHAN HK]

Dear Experts,

Had been search in the community and saw the reply that not big different for IOS vs IOS XE.

I got not much experience on switch, our company is going to migrate C2960x (IOS 15.2(7) E2) lan base license to C9300L (IOS-XE) Network Advantage license. 

Those old switches are only L2 in our network and we only use some common basic feature such as port-channel, ACL, STP, stack switch.

We got distributor vendor help for the migration and I pass startup config to them to convert into IOS-XE

I would like to ask about:

1. any hidden feature/ setting in C2960X has but C9300L has not?

2. "show running-config all " show much more hidden setting which "show running-config" does not has, if I change those non common setting, will those setting shows by "show running-config" ?

Many thanks for your big help!

[Leo Laohoo]

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@Kenny CHAN HK wrote:
Those old switches are only L2 in our network and we only use some common basic feature such as port-channel, ACL, STP, stack switch.

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2960X is purely a Layer 2 switch (except for some limited Layer 3 function) and the most logical upgrade choice is the Catalyst 1000.

Catalyst 1000 and the Catalyst 2960X runs on IOS.  

[Kenny CHAN HK]

Dear Leo,

Thanks for reply.

Unfortunately, current company already purchased C9300L before I joined and they arrived recently.