{"id":838,"date":"2019-03-01T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2019-03-09T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T15:39:37","slug":"cat-9300-8-switch-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"Cat 9300 8 Switch Stack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image.png 678w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got a chance to stack 8 x Cat 9300 Switches to stack and test it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Requirement :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>since you are stacking 8 Switches you need different Length of Stack Cables to reach SW1 to SW8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>so i have done like below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0.5m X 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.0m x 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3.0m x 1 &#8211; where this one connected Switch 1 to Switch 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow good install guide from cisco<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/td\/docs\/switches\/lan\/catalyst9300\/hardware\/install\/b_c9300_hig\/b_c9300_hig_chapter_010.html\">https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/td\/docs\/switches\/lan\/catalyst9300\/hardware\/install\/b_c9300_hig\/b_c9300_hig_chapter_010.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Default Cat 9300 come with Fuji 16.8.X may be it is not matching our production environment, so we need to degrade to 16.6.5 Eversest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stack all switches : change the switch provisioning and switch priority and reboot. so Master switch have high priority and alway elect as master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once all switch booted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>copy the Everest firmare in to switch 1(master) using USB to flash:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then follow Cisco IOS XE  install and upgrade\/downgrade guide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/td\/docs\/switches\/lan\/catalyst9300\/software\/release\/16-6\/configuration_guide\/sys_mgmt\/b_166_sys_mgmt_9300_cg\/b_166_sys_mgmt_9300_cg_chapter_01101.html\">https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/td\/docs\/switches\/lan\/catalyst9300\/software\/release\/16-6\/configuration_guide\/sys_mgmt\/b_166_sys_mgmt_9300_cg\/b_166_sys_mgmt_9300_cg_chapter_01101.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally Got a chance to stack 8 x Cat 9300 Switches to stack and test it. Requirement : since you are stacking 8 Switches you need different Length of Stack Cables to reach SW1 to SW8 so i have done like below 0.5m X 4 1.0m x 3 3.0m x 1 &#8211; where this one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}