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Anyone have experience stacking 2 Cisco SG500 series switches together?

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sup3rcarrx8

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Hi everyone. My office is expanding so ended up buying the same series of Cisco switch so we can stack a SG500-28 (current switch) and a SG500-52 (new switch on the way from Newegg). I understand I'll need some sort of SFP cable which is where I'm getting confused. The Admin PDF from Cisco says there's SFPH10GB-CU1M but do I need 1 or 2 of these cables or a separate SFP module to make this work? I'm definitely a network noob so please be patient with me. :D

Cisco PDF admin guide link for reference:
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td...ministration_guide/500_Series_Admin_Guide.pdf
 
The SFPH10GB-CUxM is just a hard wired copper SFP module. It looks as though to get a 5G stack speed, you'll need to use those, else you can use some MGBT1 modules, but you only get a 1G stack speed. You can use one, but I'd use two for redundancy (becomes a ring topology). Two does nothing for performance.

And just for clarification, the x in CUxM is the cable length in meters. Buy appropriately.
 
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