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Recommended way for Stacking M4300-24X24F
Hi, I intend to recommend and use 6x M300-24X24F and these 6 units will be stacked together. I have a few questions in setting this up: 1) The devices will be on 172.12.x.x. subnet and the multicast IP addresses will be 239.0.x.x. Should i create a separate VLAN for the devices or it is ok to use the factory default VLAN 1 and change each of the switch VLAN management IP address to say 172.12.1.1 - 172.12.1.6 2) After the switches are stacked, for backup, do i have to go to each of the individual switch to do a backup of the configuration for that particular switch? In other words i should have 6 of the config files? 3) Assuming if one of the switch breaks down and there is a hardware replacement, i only need to restore that particular switch configuration to the new hardware replacement and then put it back to the stack? Is there a need for the stack to be reloaded? Thanks.