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M5300-28G3 MLAG / stacking concepts
Hi, I'm attempting to stack / use MLAG with two M5300-28G3 switches (both same version 11 firmware). I have two AX742 stacking modules on each switch (so 4 total). I have a few conceptual que...
That's great. Redundancy is actually important and it will be depending on how many switches are you going to deploy. It might be better if you may just use the stacking links as LAG or what we call as distributed LAG. I suggest you also to have a 2nd uplink from another switch and let the RSTP do their thing.
Regards,
Thank you John - I think I was confused with MLAGs vs Stacking. I understand they are slightly different even if I don`t understand everything about the differences themselves, but I also understand that in my situation they both provide me with redundancy and stacking with distributed LAG is easier. I am not even sure at this point if MLAG is supported by the M5300.
Thanks also for clarifying that I don't strictly need 2 stack links for stacking only 2 switches, but having two allows to redundancy in case of port/cable failure. We`ll be going with redundancy in our case since it would be pretty dumb to make our switches redundant but not the actual stack link. My understanding of a stack link failure while both switches stay active is that it`s pretty disastrous for LAG network activity.
All in all the M5300s seems to be a very nice solution, and few failure tests we've run are all satisfactory.
That's great. Redundancy is actually important and it will be depending on how many switches are you going to deploy. It might be better if you may just use the stacking links as LAG or what we call as distributed LAG. I suggest you also to have a 2nd uplink from another switch and let the RSTP do their thing.
Regards,
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