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For the last few years we have been able to manage the Catalyst 9300 switches in the Meraki portal. Cisco figured out if they create a special version of IOS-XE with a container used for connecting to the Meraki cloud, then you can manage the switch the same way we manage traditional Meraki MS switches. The 9300 was the perfect platform because it has the same form factor as the existing MS...

If you manage a Cisco network, you likely have an underused management platform at your disposal. Maybe it came bundled with a licensing agreement. Maybe it was part of a refresh project that moved fast, and the management layer got configured just enough to work. Either way, the dashboard is there. The question is whether it is actually working for you.

Stackwise Virtual is a Cisco virtualization technology that allows for two Catalyst 9500 switches to virtually form a single switch, not unlike VSS with other Catalyst platforms.   This reduces the spanning tree domain and allows for Multi-chassis Etherchanneling (MEC). It will enable the StackWise Virtual pair to form aggregated links to connected switches and devices that supports LAG.