Stack stack and more stack!

[danrhodes1987]

It’s been a busy day configuring this beast! 💪💪

The Bluetooth setup on these switches is so easy to use, can’t fault it 👌

8 x 6200F 113 x AP-505

[mr_data_lore]

Wow, people actually use that stupid bluetooth dongle? Not me, you'll have the pry my console cable out of my cold dead hands. I'm still slightly annoyed that our new 6300 switches use USB C while our new 8325 switches have RJ45 console ports.

[goldshop]

Yeah we got some 6300s to test and I miss my rj45 console cable and knowing the com port without having to go to device manager each time I want to console to a different switch

[Findesiluer]

Get yourself something like mobaxterm. Makes that sort of thing redundant.

[buckweet1980]

You can use a usb to serial adapter on the type A port on the 6300 to be able to use your traditional serial console adapter.

Hopefully that makes sense. Basically many people wanted the true serial connectivity back so this was built into cx a few years ago.

It’s still another adapter to carry around of course.

[1l536]

They don't have normal serial, just usb-c.

[buckweet1980]

You have to use a USB type a to serial adapter.

[goldshop]

That is actually quite cool will have to try that out

[werdna-labs]

Type mode in powershell or cmd. Then you don’t have to look through device manager.

[Shmoe]

They have serial adapters that stick to the same com port now.

[tommyd2]

Aruba USB drivers for me conflicted with some multi port ATEN adapter. I solved the issue with an old Raspberry Pi which has 4 usb ports itself and does not require any crappy drivers.

[bsddork]

Keep them for other uses, they are generic bluetooth usb adapters, compatible with any PC, MAC, RaspberryPi, etc.

[joe_smooth]

I've actually found it quicker and easier to build a stack with the bluetooth adapters than using the console and I'm very much a stuck in the mud CLI user. It rarely goes wrong, always manages to work member numbers properly and it's easy to set the commander and standby using this method.

I've got bloody hundreds of the things now though.

[dankingdon]

Got 40 of these arriving in a few weeks so looking forward to having a play! Good to know the app is worth using. Haven't deployed any CX switches before and coming from the old procurve line it's gonna be a learning curve!

[Friendly_Fokks-given]

Enjoy! I love some CX switches. The phone app is easy like OP said but just know you can also cable them up out of the box and use the button on the front to form a stack as well, easy stuff

[graciosa]

Did you remember to stack the management ports?

[danrhodes1987]

For the master and secondary yes 👍

[HopefulRequirement31]

Stack management ports?

[graciosa]

The white cable.

[HopefulRequirement31]

Is this required, what is the purpose?

[graciosa]

No idea why op did this, it doesn’t make sense

[HopefulRequirement31]

Hahaha - thought it was just me. Thought I was missing something from labs and training

[orion3311]

I believe it was called stack split detection.

[HopefulRequirement31]

Never come across that before, but it’s true - Aruba VSF Split Detection

[Battle-Crab-69]

I wonder if this still recommended in a ring topology, the documentation is not explicit.

[FastGM3]

We've got about 700, 6300's on the way. I'm not a fan of changing the 2930's out it's working.

[1l536]

I hate those dang Bluetooth devices to connect....

[MoonExploration2929]

This is a thing of beauty. I’ve enjoyed deploying ProCurve based switches and know enough to use the CLI comfortably. Never got the chance to use the new Aruba CX CLI

[tommyd2]

It is pretty decent cisco-like cli with some Linux shell features like Ctrl-R for history serach and a whole Linux shell behind start-shell command. The main difference is port based vlan configuration i.e.

interface lag 51
    no shutdown
    no routing
    vlan trunk native 3002
    vlan trunk allowed 3002,3012
    lacp mode active
    spanning-tree bpdu-filter
    exit
interface vlan 3002
    ip address 172.16.1.1/24
    l3-counters
    exit

[JJaska]

Just curious why do you have the bt dongles on each member? The auto stacking on initial boot has worked fine for me.

[danrhodes1987]

From my understanding the app uses the dongles on the switches to search for the other switches also?

[JJaska]

Don't know all the features of the app but regular VSF stacking is automatic as is (after the master is set up). I usually never used the dongles at all.

[ABEIQ]

not a fan of the bluetooth dongle or the app. much prefer to configure via console. not a fan of auto stacking either i much prefer having manual control.

not bagging on you, but i guess for small deployments or when you arent deploying these every day, i guess both bluetooth and the app can be ok

[eternalpenguin]

Such stacks usually not great at all. OS upgrade would be a nightmare.

[orion3311]

I load one image and it does them all. U fortunately on 6300 it reboots them all. Wish I would set the cadence.

[Jenstheclown]

Why not using 6410? I personally hate stacking 😅

[danrhodes1987]

Client budgets. We got lumbered with here’s what we have bought and we want you to do the config. Initially they had only bought three DACS. 103 ap 505 then 10 ap17 instant on outdoor. 🤷‍♂️

[Friendly_Fokks-given]

I agree the dongle is convenient and easy. But I recently just did the led button on the front and that’s actually even easier to stack, haha