The Cisco documentation for the 3750 states:
'The system-level features supported on the stack master are supported on the entire switch stack. If the switch stack must have switches running both standard multilayer image (SMI) and enhanced multilayer image (EMI) software, we recommend that a switch running the EMI software be the stack master. EMI features are unavailable if the stack master is running the SMI software.'
Does this therefore mean that in a stack of switches only one switch needs the EMI image to have the EMI features available to the entire stack? Maybe have 2 with EMI and set the priorities so you have a fallback stack-master with EMI?
The documentation seems to say that this is how it works 'The system-level features supported on the stack master are supported on the entire switch stack' but I would like to know from someone who has installed them? List price is $1995 difference between SMI & EMI so it is quite a saving?
Thanks
Andy
'The system-level features supported on the stack master are supported on the entire switch stack. If the switch stack must have switches running both standard multilayer image (SMI) and enhanced multilayer image (EMI) software, we recommend that a switch running the EMI software be the stack master. EMI features are unavailable if the stack master is running the SMI software.'
Does this therefore mean that in a stack of switches only one switch needs the EMI image to have the EMI features available to the entire stack? Maybe have 2 with EMI and set the priorities so you have a fallback stack-master with EMI?
The documentation seems to say that this is how it works 'The system-level features supported on the stack master are supported on the entire switch stack' but I would like to know from someone who has installed them? List price is $1995 difference between SMI & EMI so it is quite a saving?
Thanks
Andy
