Above posts are spot on. Only thing I'll add is that if you're configuring lots of switches, it's far easier to use the API. If the new switch has the same number of ports, using the API you can simply pull the config of the old switch and apply it to the new switch. If the new switch has a different number of ports (or you're changing the port mapping), you will need to create a new csv/json file and apply it using the API. I wrote up a script a while ago to take a csv file of basic port config and push it to a given switch. Not the best coding but it works well enough - Brash92/Meraki (github.com) If you have the skills, you can do something similar to push the required config to the new switches. There's plenty of other (probably better) resources/references out there to speed up this kind of work with the API. ... View more