What is Switch Stacking?
The Switch Stacking is a feature that allows us to configure multiple Huawei switches in a way that they appear as a single switch and act cooperatively. For example, if you have five individual Huawei switches, the Switch Stacking allows you to use all of them as a single large switch.
Benefits:
The biggest benefit of the Switch Stacking is that it allows us to incrementally add more ports in the existing switch. By doing this, we can avoid the cost of upgrading to a bigger switch.
Other benefits of the Switch Stacking are the following.
· It reduces the management overhead.
· By reducing the required number of switches, it also reduces the cost of the network.
· It allows us to add or remove switches at any time without disrupting the running network or affecting its performance.
· Since all switches work as a single unit, STP does not block any port of the stack.
