Stacking Cisco Catalyst 9300L

Stacking Cisco Catalyst 9300L-48PoE+ with StackWise 480
The Catalyst 9300 Series is designed for Cisco StackWise technology, providing flexible deployment with support for nonstop forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO), for the most resilient architecture in a stackable (sub-50-ms) solution. The highly resilient and efficient power architecture features Cisco StackPower, which delivers high-density Cisco Universal Power over Ethernet (Cisco UPOE) and Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) ports. The switches are based on the Cisco Unified Access Data Plane 2.0 (UADP) 2.0 architecture which allows a larger scale and higher throughput.
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[@Will-Thaeta]

Stacking switches was something never mentioned in Cisco Classes so this is awesome!

[@ktslabs]

Most definitely @Will, not everything is mentioned in the CCNA but as you progress in your Cisco journey you will find lots of interesting stuff including those that you see on this channel fam💯👊🏾

[@luckyshabalala]

This architecture is way better than what we worked on before/ever. I just imagine 😂 how happy the packet’s are moving from point to point 🤣

[@ktslabs]

Yoh SuperStar the packets are in paradise on this architecture. They be like, damnnn this feels like a Bugatti 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@wally19]

thank you so much!

[@ktslabs]

Hey fam, thanks for the complement, much appreciated 💯👊🏾

[@elhousseinesy5548]

Very good

[@ktslabs]

Thanks for the comment fam, much appreciated 💯👊🏽

[@network-nub6687]

Are the stack members auto configured once connected? Are the switches auto defined which one is active and which one is standby/members? Do we need to manually configure that once we connect stacking cables and power on them all?

[@ktslabs]

Yes the switch will auto config once the stacking cables are connected, u can also manually change the stacking member order and priority in the CLI

[@asoet77]

Please help to let me know to change the switch priority in Cisco 9300L stacking configuration.

[@ktslabs]

@P2 Prana, Use the "switch stack-member-number priority new-priority-number" EXEC command to set one stack member with a higher member priority value. e.g:
Switch#switch 1 priority 15
Restart all stack members at the same time.

[@ETechBuy]

Is it possible to stack Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches with Cisco Catalyst 9300L Series Switches? I am wondering if these two series of switches are compatible with each other and if it is possible to stack them together to increase the number of available ports.

[@ktslabs]

Hi fam, unfortunately you can’t stack them together. The L models are slightly different from the non L models, so you can only stack the same models.

[@skeginaldp1533]

Why do you stack port 1 to port 2 on bottom switch?

[@ktslabs]

Cisco designed it that way fam

[@skeginaldp1533]

@@ktslabs gotcha so it’s a requirement thanks

[@ktslabs]

@@skeginaldp1533 💯fam

[@HaythamBuKhadra]

Is there any configurations necessary after ?

[@ktslabs]

No you don’t need to configure anything, the switch will do that automatically however if you want to change with switch is the priority then you can manually configure the stacking

[@lusquianomoreno]

what kind of cables are you using to connect the switches? thanks

[@ktslabs]

Those are StackWise cables, unique to switch models which is ordered from Cisco

[@krunalnv5858]

Are they different from power cables? ​@@ktslabs

[@ktslabs]

@@krunalnv5858correct