[c-nsp] Catalyst 3750 stacks with many members

[Holemans Wim]

Got some personal mails all in support of the stacking, saw only
negative mails on the list, interesting...
Price difference between 2x 3750 and a 6504 is not so small and a 6504
with one supervisor is still a single point of failure where a cluster
of 2 switches would give me redundancy.

Everyone thanks for the answer, still not sure what we are going to do.

Wim Holemans

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka
Sent: maandag 17 november 2008 2:10
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Catalyst 3750 stacks with many members

On Monday 17 November 2008 05:20:25 Pshem Kowalczyk wrote:

> As a result of that we do not put stacks any more. If we need more 
> ports we simply join them using ethernet cables (and etherchannels) 
> and manage independently of each other.

It has always been my personal opinion that inter-switch trunking or
migrating to a small, single-chassis, multi-line-card based platform
(e.g., 6504-E) would offer far less headache than Stacking, and keep
things simple.

Given the feedback from folk on this thread so far, I think we did well
to avoid stacks.

Mark.