What is Switch Stacking ? | Switch Stacking | Cisco Switch Stacking

What is Switch Stacking ?
A stackable switch is a network switch that is fully functional operating standalone but which can also be set up to operate together with one or more other network switches, with this group of switches showing the characteristics of a single switch but having the port capacity of the sum of the combined switches.
Some network switches have the ability to be connected to other switches and operate together as a single unit. These configurations are called "stacks", and are useful for quickly increasing the capacity of a network.
Why Stacking?
Stacking allows users to expand their network capacity without the hassle of managing multiple devices.
Stackable switches can be added or removed from a stack as needed without affecting the overall performance of the stack. Depending on its topology, a stack can continue to transfer data even if a link or unit within the stack fails. This makes stacking an effective, flexible, and scalable solution to expand network capacity.
Stacking Terminology:-
If you are unfamiliar with the terms used below, check out Cisco Business: Glossary of New Terms .
All Cisco Business stacks have an Active switch, or commander. The Active switch is a switch in the stack that handles the configuration for the entire stack. When you want to manage your stack, the Active switch is the device that you connect to in order to make changes. The Active switch also handles other important stack functions, such as detecting when switches enter or leave the stack, and upgrading outdated switches.
A Standby switch is a switch that will become the new Active switch if the original Active switch goes offline. In this way, a backup helps maintain the resiliency of the stack.
A Member is a stackable switch that operates as an additional unit within the stack.
A stack port is a port on the switch that is used to communicate with other switches in the stack. Depending on the model, a switch can have either preconfigured or user-defined stack ports.
Conclusion
After reading this document, you've hopefully gained a better understanding of what stacking is and how it can benefit your network.
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[@DiegoSilva_1990]

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[@Heartfeather111]

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[@azeemmuhammad775]

Detailed explanation thank you.

[@limboonhian9443]

Hi, thanks for the explaination. just a question on the stacking failover. if the standby switch(switch 2) take over the session during the event that the active switch(switch 1) is having power failure, what will happen when the switch 1 is back online?

[@meraphone8001]

thanks sir for ur consideration n sharing the info... god bless u... now question is this...
1) as u told regarding the connection to create the master we need to power on the switch once its boot up procees complete connect the standby switch and power on than member than next member.. so. on... so do we need to just power on step by step or else we also need to connect cable physically step by step ?? we can create the physical topology ready and than power on the switch step by step ? ryt ??
2) what if master gets fail standby switch will take the control so what about configuration all the configuration of master switch will be transfered to standby switch automatically ?? what about end host only those end host will be affected or all the end host will be affected which are connected to switch in case of master switch failure ??

[@shehzadarshad2000]

Thanks for the watching you can configure Switch priorities as i told about the priorities its very easy to configure and when it will go down standby will be the master and when you will bring back the master the DR master will go back to stand by but it will required restart the devices thanks

[@meraphone8001]

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