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Understanding Switch Stacking

Switch stacking is a technology which will allow multiple switches to become a single logical switch. Which will allow you to manage them as a single switch. Cisco has Stackwise. Stackwise architecture allows stacking up to eight switches. Other Vendors has their own stacking technology which is similar. In this discussion, we are only going to go through adding a...

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.