Stacks and Hierarchical design

[siscon00b]

I'm working on a design at the moment and wanted to clear things up.

I'm looking at using Cisco 9300's in a stack, i have approximately 80 desktops and 30 server connections required.

Is it worth it to have a separate stack for servers and separate for access?

With how stack's work, i could lose the active stack member, complete power failure and the next stack member would take our supervision and power?

Are there any performance considerations i need to be aware of if there is only one active member at a given time?

Thank you.

[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

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@siscon00b wrote:

Is it worth it to have a separate stack for servers and separate for access?

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Yes.

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@siscon00b wrote:

Are there any performance considerations i need to be aware of if there is only one active member at a given time? 

9300 isn't designed to be connected to servers.  Sure it will work but once the servers start talking the shallow buffers will drop packets.

[siscon00b]

Oh really, i didn't realize there were different switches just for servers that is interesting. I've only ever seen 3750, 3850's etc used and the 9300 seems to be the successor to that?

[Leo Laohoo]

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@siscon00b wrote:

i didn't realize there were different switches just for servers that is interesting. 

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Cisco has positioned the Nexus to do servers.