Hi, i've got a few quick questions about stacking on Dell switches.
1. I’ve created a stack between two switches, but the master role keeps switching. How do I make sure a specific switch is always the master regardless of the boot sequence? Is it the “switch <unit> priority” command? The lowest priority number will always become the master? What’s the default behavior (if the priority isn't specified)?
2. Does the “standby <unit>” configure a specific switch to become the standby switch (even its currently the master)? What if that switch also has “switch <unit> priority” with a lower number than the other switch(s)?
3. Does “copy image unit all” copy the current active image on the master to all members? And then the “boot system <unit>” will automatically reboot the member and also automatically update the bootcode?
4. If I want to connect two stack cables (EtherChannel, or LAG, whatever the term is) from SW1 to SW2, it would be a simple port-channel configuration, such as -for example- adding xg1 and xg2 to the port-channel?
5. The documentation suggests a ring topology when connecting the switches (last switch in the stack connect back to the first), in order to avoid a single point of failure in the stack chain. Wouldn’t spanning-tree see this as a loop? or perhaps not since the last to the first only has one direct path. Do i need to configure anything?
6. The documentation talks about a “boot auto-copy-sw” command to have all member switches check for the latest firmware (from the master) on boot up, but I don’t see such a command available on the switch. Does this command still exist?
7. Can I use the “Switch renumber” to renumber both the master and member switches?
8. I assume that the IP address of a member unit is unreachable?