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Stacked Configurations
In addition to working as individual, stand-alone switches,
OmniSwitch 6600 Family switches can also be linked together
to form a single, high-density virtual chassis known as a stack.
Stacking switches provides scalability by allowing users to
quickly and easily expand 10/100 port density. Twenty-four
10/100 ports are added for each OS6624 brought into the
stack; twenty-four 100 SFP ports are added for each OS6600-
U24; forty-eight 10/100 ports are added for each OS6648.
Up to eight switches can be stacked. OmniSwitch 6600 Family
switches can be mixed and matched in any combination within
the stack. This provides a virtual chassis with a 10/100 or 100
capacity of up to 384 ports.
As with the stand-alone configuration, a stacked virtual chas-
sis configuration provides Gigabit Ethernet uplinks to a back-
bone or server.
Note. For basic information on stacking OmniSwitch 6600
Family switches into a virtual chassis, refer to
“Completing a Stacked Configuration” on page 24.
For additional information, refer to the OmniSwitch
6600 Family Hardware Users Guide.
Availability Features
The OmniSwitch 6600 Family provides a broad variety of
Availability features. Availability features are hardware- and
software-based safeguards that help prevent the loss of data
flow in the event of a subsystem failure.
In addition, some Availability features allow you to maintain
or replace hardware components without powering off your
switch or interrupting switch operations.
Combined, these features provide added resiliency and help
ensure that your switch is consistently available for your day-
to-day network operations.
Hardware-related Availability features include:
• Smart Continuous Switching
• Software Rollback
• Hot Swapping
• Hardware Monitoring
For information on these Availability features, refer to the
OmniSwitch 6600 Family Hardware Users Guide.
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