3 HP-E4210 in stacking

[Alan-1970]

Hi,

how can I connect 3 HP-E4210G in stacking?

Have these switch a proprietary port for this type of connection or have I to buy a module apart?

Thanks for the answers.

Bye!

Andrea

[Fred_Mancen_1]

These switches cannot be stacked in a real stack feature. It uses a feature called IRF Lite, that actually is like a "cluster-stack", where you can connect up to 8 switches using CX4 2-Port Local Connection Modules and cables, at 10 Gbps speed. In this way, one switch acts as a master and the others as slave switches.

In a stack, the stacked switches acts as a single logical entity, and supports distributed link-aggregation and uses one console to manage the whole stack. The IRF Lite stack feature does not provide these options, and you have to manage each slave switch per time. The master will responds to a single IP address, but it will communicate to the slave switches through the VLAN 1, assigning IP addresses to the slaves automatically.

So, if you want to change some setting in a slave switch, you have to connect to the master, then issue a command in order to swap to the desired slave console. Another tip: the switches don't synchronize the settings and save command.

HTH