If I have (2) MS450's, greater than 3M apart, can I use 100G transceivers in the Stack ports to still be able to stack the 450's?
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Is it supported? - No
Will it work? - Maybe. There's conflicting Reddit threads about people trying this. Some say it works and some don't.
You can purchase the transceivers and give it a go but support won't be able to assist you if you encounter issues... Not worth it in my opinion.
Edited: It's probably will not work.
But I think the largest cable available is from 3M.
https://meraki.cisco.com/product/switches/aggregation-switches/ms450-12/
Is it supported? - No
Will it work? - Maybe. There's conflicting Reddit threads about people trying this. Some say it works and some don't.
You can purchase the transceivers and give it a go but support won't be able to assist you if you encounter issues... Not worth it in my opinion.
There are third party cables up to 5m in length that might work and are cheaper to test, such as: https://www.fs.com/products/50483.html
If it’s not supported I wouldn’t do it.
I was also wondering if this works. I am looking into buying two MS450 and use them in a stack stretched across two server rooms for redundancy.
With the front plane stacking I expect it to work like the Catalyst 9500 virtual stacking and I think I've seen that setup working at one of my former customer sites. (But don't quote me on that)
Maybe open a case with Meraki and ask if this is something that works and is supported? The stacking cables are just QSFP cables so I don't see why a fiber module shouldn't work.
I'm using these:
https://gbcphotonics.com/en/qsfp-plus-40g/1443-qsfp-lx4.html
it is 40Gbit since its on my MS425-32, but never had issues with them.
Do you mean the front 100G ports? These are for uplinks only, the 450's don't support Flexible Stacking so I would have to use the back Stacking ports and I'm just wondering if 100G QSFP's would work in place of the Stacking Cables.
Oh I think I mistook the 450 for the 425 sorry! But because Meraki uses standard QSFP DACs I think it should work. It won't be supported though.