User guide

EXTREMEWARE ENTERPRISE MANAGER INSTALLATION AND USER GUIDE 9-1

Managing Virtual Chassis Stacks

This chapter describes how to use the Virtual Chassis Stack Manager for:

• Displaying a Virtual Chassis stack.

• Updating the Virtual Chassis stack topology.

• Creating a Virtual Chassis stack.

• Editing a Virtual Chassis stack.

• Deleting a Virtual Chassis stack.

OVERVIEW OF VIRTUAL CHASSIS STACKS

The Summit Virtual Chassis is a high performance, low cost external backplane that

connects up to eight stacked or distributed Summit switches into one cohesive system.

A Virtual Chassis (VC) stack is a configuration of one to four Summit Virtual Chassis

and up to eight connected Summit switches.

Note:

See the

Summit Virtual Chassis Design and Installation Guide

for a discussion

and examples of Summit Virtual Chassis stack configurations.

The Virtual Chassis Stack Manager applet of the ExtremeWare

Enterprise Manager lets

you identify virtual stack configurations, as well as manually create, modify, and delete

Virtual Chassis stack topology representations in the Enterprise Manager database.

Managing stack topologies through the VC Stack Manager does not affect the actual

switch configurations. Only port configurations can be changed on the switch through

the VC Stack Manager.