Cisco Catalyst 3560CX Series User Manual

Managing Switch Stacks
• Prerequisites for Switch Stacks, on page 1
• Restrictions for Switch Stacks, on page 1
• Information About Switch Stacks, on page 1
• How to Configure a Switch Stack, on page 11
• Troubleshooting the Switch Stack, on page 18
• Monitoring the Device Stack, on page 20
• Configuration Examples for Switch Stacks, on page 21
• Additional References for Switch Stacks, on page 24
Prerequisites for Switch Stacks
Restrictions for Switch Stacks
There are no restrictions with Horizontal Stacking on Catalyst 3560cx.
Information About Switch Stacks
Horizontal Stacking
The Catalyst 3560CX series switches supporting 10G SFP+ uplink ports and MGig ports can be part of
horizontal stacking. We can use SFP+ with the optical cables and copper cables on the MGig ports to connect
boxes placed at different location to form a stack, where the compact boxes are placed in different floors or
buildings. We can form half-ring or full-ring based on need, and remaining uplink ports will continue to work
as network ports.
When we convert a network port to stack port, it will continue to work as network port without any impact
to current running configuration until next reload of switch. All current configurations of that particular
network port will be lost after reload of switch once port comes up as Stack port.
When we convert a stack port back to network port it will continue to work as stack port until next reload of
switch. After reload port comes up as network port with default configuration.
Managing Switch Stacks
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Cisco Catalyst 3560CX Series Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	Catalyst 3560CX Series
Category	Switch
Language	English