For some time now, the C9300(X) in Meraki Managed persona has been available. We've just had two migrations where they've been deployed in stacks as a L2 Core switches, and based on these migrations we've had a bunch of odd behaviors. I'm curious to what others have experienced with them? The latest "issue" we've had with them, and which I find as a rather big issue, is that fact that when doing a change on a port, e.g. enabling a disabled port, the port would still have the "shutdown" command even after up towards 30 minutes, despite the dashboard showing the port being enabled. This really makes it difficult to do Acceptance Tests and Failover tests, by simulating link downs in an aggregated port. We could verify that the switch still had the ports in shutdown mode, with the dashboard terminal view. This stack is running 17.15.3. It is as if the 9300 is having some trouble with the config scheduler that should be pushing changes to the config. To be honest, we are beginning to become rather hesitant with positioning the 9300 in Meraki Managed persona, at the moment. And this is going to become an issue, due to that fact that there isn't really any other alternative, since most other Meraki native hardware is EoL.
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