I have received switch replacements for the fan issue and need to replace complete stacks. While I see I can do one at a time, I'd just like to pull the entire stack of 2, 3 or 4 switches at once and replace them all at once. Can I do that or is it just once at a time?
You can do them all at once. Do you have a specific concern about doing them all at once?
No concern. I was just checking that I could do them all at once.
Yeah you can do them all at once. I would suggest configuring them and setting them up on a bench before hand so they can do firmware upgrades and download config settings before hand. That will only mean a little less downtime when you are doing the physical swap.
For stacks there's more info here:
https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Stacking/Switch_Stacks#Replacing_a_Stack_Member
No 1 thing I say is allow the device to upgrade its firmware to the network equivalent and let it sit for at least 20 minutes.
Sorry for the thread hijack. Is there anything bad that would happen if I cloned the switches during production time? I have two stacks of three switches each, and if I can save myself some maintenance time by cloning ahead of time, that'd be great. I don't want to clone early and bring down the network during a non-maintenance window, though.
Thanks!
cloning is no problem, the IP-Addresses will not be cloned, so there should be no impact to the network.