MS425-16 Warm spare with stacking, what options are possible

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Djomatch
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MS425-16 Warm spare with stacking, what options are possible

Hello,

 

I'm actually deplying 4 MS425-16, two stacked switches in each datacenters and muss have a VRRP between them.

What options do I have, since it seems like Warm spare doe not work while stacking is activated.

 

Thanks in advance.

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Djomatch
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Hello everyone, thanks for your feedback.

I finaly decided to use virtual stacking between all DC Switches, which solved our problem.

 

Regards,

Lionel

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kYutobi
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Why use VRRP if you're already stacking?

 

In a warm spare MS configuration, VRRP will be leveraged to exchange heartbeats and determine if the warm spare should take over when the primary fails.  But if you just create a physical stack, and stagger your devices (especially any dual-homed devices) across multiple switches in a physical stack, that tends to meet the majority of use-cases.  You can also do cross-stack LACP so if you're uplinking/downlinking to other switches or switch stacks, that works too.  Double check this doc https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Layer_3_Switching/MS_Warm_Spare_(VRRP)_Overview to see if it's really what your requirements dictate as opposed to physical stacking, and let us know if something's not clear.

 

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jdsilva
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@Djomatch wrote:

 

I'm actually deplying 4 MS425-16, two stacked switches in each datacenters and muss have a VRRP between them.

 


This implies stretching L2 between your DC's. Don't do that. Tell your server guys it's a dumb idea. Use L3 instead.

PhilipDAth
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You'll need to change your design.  You can't stack the switches and use VRRP.  One or the other.

 

You might want to consider using the stacked switches for layer 2 connectivity only, and using dedicated layer 3 devices for providing default gateway protection.

 

If you want to use a single set of devicea then Meraki switching may not be the right choice.  You could consider using the Cisco Nexus family instead.

 

I respectively disagree with @jdsilva .  I used stretched layer 2 DC designs all the time.  It is not straight forward being able to have a DR strategy for some apps that involves you having to re-IP them.  Keeping everything look the same gives you huge safety.

Djomatch
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Hello everyone, thanks for your feedback.

I finaly decided to use virtual stacking between all DC Switches, which solved our problem.

 

Regards,

Lionel

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