Evening All, Got a project coming up that is fairly simple, yet fairly large. There are roughly 55 IDFs each with a single switch in. 2 with large stacks 4/8 switches. Each IDF with a single switch will have 2 MMF uplinks for redundancy to core. So in total, roughly 110 SFP+ At the core I have 4 x MS425-32 switches going in. What I can’t decide on is whether to have: A) 2 stacks of 2 x MS425 (core stack 1 and core stack 2) with an uplink from each idf to each core stack. B) 1 stack of 4 x ms425 (core stack) with an uplink from each idf going to 2 separate switches in the stack. There isn’t any east-west traffic, so no SVI’s. VLANs all terminate on upstream MX. Can anyone suggest any pros/cons to either method? All I have so far is with 2x2 stack I can stage firmware rather than bringing the entire 1x4 offline. Or if I use 1x4 I don’t have to worry about linking them aside the stack cables. I hope this makes sense, I am aware I need sleep! Any insight is greatly appreciated.
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