Good comments on the stack power limitation of 4. You mentioned stacking up to 9 switches and while older stacking arrangements usually had a limit of 9, this model is limited to a total of 8. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your great explanation , very helpful , for the first time i saw how fan and PS are swap on switches. i got a NOC L1 support jobs, so its great i found u on youtube. you are awesome. Keep up the good work .
We just provisioned these switches in C9300-48UXMtripple stack running 16.8.1a CAT9K_IOSXE and we are not using any of the features you just mentioned. you could do a video on how to get the most out your money series.
Excellent presentation, one thing though, the Out -of-band Mgt port is the blue port. And the In-band Mgt port is the yellow one. Minor mistake. Great job Sir.
Hi, Thanks for your Video in our office we are going to upgrade Core switch from 3750 Stacking to 9300 Stacking. Could you provide any document and guidance for the same, since i recently started taking care of Core Switch configure.
9300 and 9300X are still the best access layer switches on the market. For a core switch I would look at the 9500/9500X. If you need something larger, you could look at the 9600 chassis.
Hi and thanks for this informative video. I was wondering if you can confirm if the mgmt interface on this box will work the same as the Nexus7k where we can use as a separate vrf for management traffic only?? Thanks in advance
Thanks. Very comprehensible overview. I also have a question : Are 24-and 48 port 9300s stackable ? I plan to order access 48 port 9300s for end-user stacks and 24-port for server stack. And also to get one extra 48 port for spare. Would I be able to also use it as spare for 24-port Server SWs ?
No problem. You can stack any flavor of the Cat 9300's together. The only thing you need to watch out for is if you had an older stackable switch. You can not mix for example a Cat 3850 with a Cat 9300. Also... For your server side of things. You may want to consider the Nexus 9K line of switches. The Nexus line was designed to be more of a Data Center centric switch. It may be worth a quick conversation with your Cisco Systems Engineer to make sure you get the correct switch in your DC.
That feature is with either SDA or Normal switch mode. It sends the ETA data to our stealthwatch product. Stealthwatch is what tells you whats going on.
Hello, Stackwise Virtual is not a feature on 9300 boxes. They have physical stacking capabilities. Stackwise Virtual right now is on the Cat 9500 box. www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst9500/software/release/16-6/configuration_guide/b_166_ha_9500/b_166_ha_9500_chapter_01.pdf Plug and Play is a feature of DNA Center. Your Cisco SE should have access to a demo server they can show you.
What model, part# can you recommend to replace a catalyst 3650G that will serve as an access switch? More like the switch is in every buidling department building and uplinks to the core switch in a Data Center. 48 ports (1G data, PoE). Would you recommend to get Modular uplinks of 10G or Fixed uplink? If modular you can just upgrade say to 25G, 40G or mGig? Not the whole switch like if you get fixed uplinks? Is it better to get the C9300 -xx T/P/U/S 1G or C9300L/LM 1G? I am new to Cisco switches. Thanks.
Hi! Thanks for the comment! There are a lot of different models and port configurations. Also cisco does not sell direct so pricing would come from a partner.
Hi thanks for the information about the switch.. just curious this switch can be used as a core switch? though its being sold as an access layer switch?
What you didn't cover is Cisco's almost negligently poor software product reliability. Man - they are frigging terrible for getting their releases working properly. 3850 in particular - it took me a YEAR to find a build that didn't burn us every bloody time. DNAC - another colossal PITA product. These two together with Gibraltar? Oah - there's going to be bug after bug...
Thanks for watching! Take a look at my other video. How to Use the Transceiver Optics Compatibility Matrix ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c8GXkhZ9NUU.html
I am stacking 2 Cisco switch9348 first one is high priority role is active, second one is low priority role is standby...when first switch is down it's automatically second switch going on active but again iam power on the first switch it was going to member. I need to change that active instantly, Beacuse when I reload 2Second switch means both the switch take reboot. How to changed first switch is active again without reload?
It's better than using the serial port 😀The micro USB is obviously more popular because of mobile devices. It's smaller and can handle more insertions. Neither one really matters on a big switch.
Check out the datasheet. Any of the part number with U in them have uPoE. For example, C9300-48UXM www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-9300-series-switches/data_sheet-c78-738977.html
Hi Dupa! It’s standard 1ru size. It’s purposely built to that size to fit 48 ports and be housed in a network closet. The price is actually lower than the previous generation. I wold recommend working with you Cisco account manager on the price. Thanks for the feedback!!
Thanks for the run down.....quick question---how do you connect power stack cables between 2 9300s? can you do Green/Yellow on top one and Yellow/Green at the bottom? Is there a right or wrong way of doing this?
Plug into the regular ports, no SFP's needed. There are distance limitations depending on if you have Cat5e/Cat6/Cat6a. Check out the chart here: www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-3650-series-switches/q-and-a-c67-737464.html
Can you stack 9200s with 9300s? I have an expansion going to happen in April and 9200s are on back order. My entire network is 9200L but I'm being told I could purchase 9300s amd they'd arrive on time. Could I stack with 9200Ls or would I need to keep them in separate stacks?
The other day I was seeing something about the power stack setup with the 3750-X's where it is the same 4 stack max, unless you use the RPS option for it, then you can stack up to the full 9 iirc. I assume it is the same situation for the 9300?
There are a few options here. Take a look at this document. It goes over the options. www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst9300/hardware/install/b_c9300_hig/b_c9300_hig_chapter_010.html#concept_971E5E644A094ABEB52C4911E6BA154B
Hi! Don’t think you can compare these switches you mention. If you are looking for basic switching like what Huawei or h3c has you might want to look at the catalyst 1000 switch. Or maybe even some of the smb line.
Hi Mate, Appreciate your helpful video I am a layman interms of the switches Could you please help me to know the way I need to reboot/restart it ? Is there a power reset button on it ?
Can you please let me know what is bill of materials required for 9300 switch? Meaning what all to be ensured that are in place before ordering after getting the quote from the vendor
You should call a Cisco partner for this. There are a bunch of different versions of the 9300. We would need a quick phone conversation to figure out what one out need.
There are both 24 and 48-port SFP C9300’s for Gigabit fiber. The C9500 switches are for 10-Gigabit SFP+ and higher (QSFP+). This could be confusing if you previously used C3850’s (1Gig) and C3850XS (10Gig) switches, and assumed the same hierarchy for the Catalyst 9k family. Note that unlike the 3850’s, C9300 switches are not stackable with C9500’s.
@@CiscoSal in minute 5:40 you said c3850 uplink module is compatible with c9300 switch, right? So instead of c9200-nm-4g uplink modules, can I use the c3850 uplink with c9300 switch?
Uplinks connect to other switches. So you would have an access layer switch like a 9300 that your users would plug into. Then you would have that switch uplinked to a core 9500 switch where all the access layer switches come together. Hope that helps!
Usually when i hear mlag that means your looking at Arista. This is typically used for data center core switches. So In that case you would want cisco nexus and vPC. The 9300 switch is designed to be an end user switch. You would plug PC’s, printers, access points etc… into them. If we look at more campus core technologies like the 9500 or 9600 then there is also stackwise virtual. Again catalyst is only recommended for campus and not for servers. Hope that helps.
@@CiscoSal according to the datasheet it supports cross stack mc lags. This is for distribution / core replacing two 2960x. The reason I want to use the mc cross stack lag is too remove stp config in the current setup to several ie-2000 switches and replace the stp with lag config. Also several virtualization servers will be connected to the c9300 stack in lag config. That’s at least my intention.
Correct. Multi chassis etherchannel is supported. I just want to make sure you are using them where they are supposed to be used. 9300 can be used as a access layer aggregation point, i would just caution using them for server aggregation.
@@CiscoSal it’s combined (small setup) it will replace two 2960 switches. The other 5 ie-2000’s will be replaced later. So in network power the 9300’s will never be at a high load. I want too remove the old fashioned spanning-tree config it has now and configure some proper switch vlan routing. Can the 9200 model do the same? I am looking at the 9300 due to the 8 port sfp+ uplink module. Thanks for the feedback 👍.
ETA just sounds like something coming from the marketing department. "machine learning algorythms detect network threads"... I can see network admin working thru false alarms over and over already.
Cisco switch is good switche, but the Console microUSB is very very very very very very very very very very very very terrible, horrible - f.......... Why not USB-C?
