[c-nsp] VSS question...

Tony Varriale tvarriale at comcast.net
Tue Jul 28 22:57:31 EDT 2009


Multiple sups per chassis are not supported.  From access to core, since VSS 
looks like one chassis, you would do 1 uplink to each physical 6500.

Cisco's data sheet: 
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps9336/product_data_sheet0900aecd806ed759.html

Want to get into the weeds a little?  How about some tasty config guide?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12.2SX/configuration/guide/vss.html

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Kell" <jeff-kell at utc.edu>
To: "'NSP List'" <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:06 PM
Subject: [c-nsp] VSS question...


> Excuse the naive question, just starting to look at VSS and trying to tune 
> to the concept...
>
> For those of you that have dived into VSS...  are you still doing 
> redundant supervisors per chassis?  or just duplicating links on each 
> chassis and crossing your fingers?
>
> I've done the 3750 stacks and perhaps locked my thinking into designing 
> with a complete chassis failure being "tolerable" in the end design.  Does 
> this scale up to VSS, or just a matter of how many ports can you afford to 
> drop?
>
> Jeff
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