Hi You need to be on the latest firmware, currently 14.24. This has improved boot times significatly. There are still issues with these switches but they are getting better. They do have their own minds when it comes to stacking and aggrigating ports. Always best to get them online first before you do anything with them, this breaks from the usual pre-staging that you would normally do with a switch network. ... View more

We had the dashboard dropping also, when you looked on the 9500 core it was complaining about low power on the links to the core. Just upgraded to 14.21 so far all good, been just under a week up now. ... View more