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Rolling Stack Upgrade
Dear Experts,
We have Brocade FCX stacks in our DC running 7.2. The plan
is to upgrade them to 7.4x release but without an outage. Is there anything
similar to rolling stack upgrade in Brocade? I believe a similar feature is
there for Cisco switches.

BR
Salman
Re: Rolling Stack Upgrade [ In reply to ]
I suspect there's no rolling stack upgrade support. It's been something
I've been asking for on the ICX6610's, too.



Regards,



Frank



From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
salman sadiq
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 10:42 PM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: [f-nsp] Rolling Stack Upgrade



Dear Experts,

We have Brocade FCX stacks in our DC running 7.2. The plan
is to upgrade them to 7.4x release but without an outage. Is there anything
similar to rolling stack upgrade in Brocade? I believe a similar feature is
there for Cisco switches.

BR

Salman
Re: Rolling Stack Upgrade [ In reply to ]
Hi Frank,
I agree with you. It seems Brocade doesn't have a similar
feature. I think even in Cisco RSU has been recently introduced. However,
it is a vital feature for stacks. Perhaps stacks are only intended to offer
increased port density not full redundancy.

BR
Salman


On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Frank Bulk <frnkblk@iname.com> wrote:

> I suspect there’s no rolling stack upgrade support. It’s been something
> I’ve been asking for on the ICX6610’s, too.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Frank
>
>
>
> *From:* foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces@puck.nether.net] *On
> Behalf Of *salman sadiq
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 22, 2013 10:42 PM
> *To:* foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* [f-nsp] Rolling Stack Upgrade
>
>
>
> Dear Experts,
>
> We have Brocade FCX stacks in our DC running 7.2. The
> plan is to upgrade them to 7.4x release but without an outage. Is there
> anything similar to rolling stack upgrade in Brocade? I believe a similar
> feature is there for Cisco switches.
>
> BR
>
> Salman
>
Re: Rolling Stack Upgrade [ In reply to ]
It's unfortunate that Brocade doesn't support this - it would be a huge plus
for MC-LAG configurations.



Frank



From: salman sadiq [mailto:salmanravian@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 11:04 PM
To: Frank Bulk
Cc: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Rolling Stack Upgrade



Hi Frank,

I agree with you. It seems Brocade doesn't have a similar feature.
I think even in Cisco RSU has been recently introduced. However, it is a
vital feature for stacks. Perhaps stacks are only intended to offer
increased port density not full redundancy.

BR

Salman



On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Frank Bulk <frnkblk@iname.com
<mailto:frnkblk@iname.com> > wrote:

I suspect there's no rolling stack upgrade support. It's been something
I've been asking for on the ICX6610's, too.



Regards,



Frank



From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces@puck.nether.net
<mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces@puck.nether.net> ] On Behalf Of salman sadiq
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 10:42 PM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net <mailto:foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net>
Subject: [f-nsp] Rolling Stack Upgrade



Dear Experts,

We have Brocade FCX stacks in our DC running 7.2. The plan
is to upgrade them to 7.4x release but without an outage. Is there anything
similar to rolling stack upgrade in Brocade? I believe a similar feature is
there for Cisco switches.

BR

Salman