Cisco Catalyst 3560CX Series Manual

Managing Switch Stacks
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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.
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
Managing Switch Stacks
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