OmniSwitch 6450 Hardware Users Guide July 2012 page 6-1
6 Managing
OmniSwitch 6450 Stacks
In addition to their working as individual stand-alone switches, 24- and 48-port OmniSwitch 6450
switches can also be linked together to work as a single virtual chassis known as a stack. With stacks,
users can easily expand their switching capacity simply by adding additional switches to the stack. In addi-
tion, stacks provide enhanced resiliency and redundancy features. For more information, refer
to page 6-2.
In This Chapter
This chapter provides information on OmniSwitch 6450 switches configured to operate as a single virtual
chassis. Topics described in the chapter include:
• OmniSwitch 6450 stack overview on page 6-2.
• Roles within the stack on page 6-4.
• Stack cabling on page 6-17.
• Slot numbering on page 6-20.
• Hot-Swapping modules in a stack on page 6-25.
• Reloading switches on page 6-27.
• Changing the secondary module to primary on page 6-35.
• Synchronizing switches in a stack on page 6-37.
• Monitoring the stack on page 6-38.
Note. You can also manage and monitor OmniSwitch 6450 stacks through WebView, Alcatel-Lucent’s
embedded web-based device management application. WebView is an interactive and easy-to-use GUI
that can be launched from OmniVista or a web browser. Please refer to WebView’s online documentation
for more information.
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