Preface; Purpose; Audience; Conventions - Cisco Catalyst 3850 Deployment Manual

Preface

Purpose

The purpose of this guide is to explain the basic concepts and provide general procedures and commands to
deploy Cisco

Audience

This guide is for networking professionals who are responsible for designing, implementing, or administering a
network that includes a standalone Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch or a Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch stack, referred to
as the switch. Readers of this guide are expected to have prior experience working with the Cisco IOS
and familiarity with the concepts and terminology of local area networking, wireless local area networking, and
Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching.

Conventions

This publication uses these conventions to convey instructions and information:
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Command names are in boldface text.
● System displays are in screen font.

Introduction

The next-generation Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch meets the current and future demands of enterprise access-layer
networks. As these networks incorporate ever more technologies, they must be secure, scalable, and resilient. The
Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch offers operational simplicity, scalability, and superb performance. The new Cisco
StackWise-480 stack architecture delivers the industry's best-in-class stack bandwidth and resiliency.
The Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch supports the powerful next-generation Cisco IOS XE Software. The modular Cisco
IOS XE Software architecture enables rich, scalable, and cost-effective integrated borderless networking services.
The Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch is the first stackable access-layer switch that provides both wired and wireless
services on a single Cisco IOS XE Software-based platform.
This guide describes the procedures required to deploy a Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch:
1.

Initializing the Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch

2. Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch right-to-use (RTU) licensing model
3. Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch stacking
4. Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch Database Manager (SDM) template
Initializing the Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch
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Console setup
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Cisco IOS XE Software bundle and packages overview
● Booting Cisco IOS XE Software
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Updating Cisco IOS XE Software
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Software rollback
● Software clean
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Boot loader upgrade
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Migration to installed mode
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Catalyst 3850 Switches. It does not provide detailed information about these commands.
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