x530L Series Installation Guide for Virtual Chassis Stacking
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Stack Trunks of 5Gbps Ports on the x530L-10GHXm or x530L-
18GHXm Switch
The 10Gbps SFP+ ports on the x530L-10GHXm or x530L-18GHXm switch
are not the only ports you can use for a trunk of a stack. If you prefer to
use the 10Gbps ports for other functions, you can use the 5Gbps ports for
the trunk instead. You can use all 5Gbps ports per switch for a trunk. As
with a trunk based on 10 Gbps SFP+ ports, the more 5Gbps ports a trunk
has, the greater its bandwidth and resiliency.
The rules and guidelines for a stack trunk of 5Gbps ports are similar to
stack trunks of 10Gbps ports.
Stacks can have up to eight switches.
You can use 5Gbps ports for the trunk:
– x530L-10GHXm ports 1 - 8
– x530L-18GHXm ports 1 - 16
The trunk can have from two or all 5Gbps ports per switch.
A stack of x530L-10GHXm switches with a trunk of 5Gbps ports
cannot contain other x530L switches because the other models do
not have 5Gbps ports. To build a stack containing x530L-10GHXm
or x530L-18GHXm switches and other x530L switches, you have
to use 10Gbps ports for the trunk.
When possible, you should use the same ports on all the switches
of a stack. This is not a requirement, but it can make managing and
troubleshooting a stack easier. For example, you might designate
ports 5 and 6 and a stack of x530L-10GHXm switches to be the
stacking ports.
You designate the stack ports with the STACKPORT command.
Once ports are designated as trunk ports, you cannot view of
change their parameter settings.
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