Unboxing and stacking Cisco Catalyst 9300

hi and welcome to my channel my name is Magnus and today we're going to unbox catalysts which it's a C 9340 8 P - a and I have no idea what that stands for but it's a 48 port office network switch with Kiwi so let's start this switch it actually comes with both redundant power supply stacking capabilities so a lot of cool stuff and 10 gigs Ethernet ports so first of all see if you can show you here it has a lot of stuff with it so cables and if you're going to use your own cables make sure to have these cables see it's like little holder so 2 cables because it's redundant power supplies some product stuff then we have this one this is a stacking power cable so this one this is power stack and then we have one of these hard to see in the plastic so I remove it this is a stack cable stacked cable so as you see right away it's not compatible with the old ones for like thirty seven 50 etc don't know if this is higher bandwidth I believe so then we have normal rack mounting kit same as in one of their Cisco switches and it's this normal normal rack mounting then we have ooh here we have the PS use so the power supply's open one of these as well and this is 715 watts there is different ones that you can buy it depends on how much peewee you want to have available and we have two then you have the switch itself and as you see it has a new color Cisco did have like brown and then they have green or blueish now they have a more modern take open this so here we have it it's like it's not white it's more like a silver gray like this so we will add the power supplies and see the fan trace and successful so here you have the front of the switch so you see that it has 48 normal couple ports and then it has one module and this module it can be different type of modules in here I have selected to have an 8 port sfp+ to have 10 gig ports then you see here you have the new type of console cable and you have a USB port on the back side you do have here this is for the SSD so you can put SSD drive if you just remove this let's see how to remove it like this then you can put an SSD there I have some switches with it I'm not sure what to use it for yet and then you have the normal console port then you have a management port and here you have redundant fans and they are quite small so they make some noise and all of them are removable I believe they are hot swappable then we have this power supply and it's as I said 715 watts and just slide them in and it's click and as I pointed out before you need to have the cable type with this little hole in it so you can fit it and like this and here you do have power as I mentioned before this one has stacking capabilities and also power so here it's the stacking port I don't know which way it should be yeah feels like it and then you just tighten the screw here it's just yeah that feels a lot better so it's this side this side should be up this side should be down and you see that this has yeah I'm worked there so like this just press it in it will click and then you just screw it together and when it comes to the when it comes to the power cable it looks like this I believe there is no difference so just take this out and um it will fit in these two holes either way so I have powered everything up and as you can see you have LEDs saying the status of it and you can remove like this so it's hot swappable when you press it back in its in green when it's ready so their ID of this with stack power is that you don't need to have power supplies in all of the switches if you don't need to if it's easier with cabling etc I of course recommend you to have power supplies in in all of them but it's possible so if you want to do that you need to use this stackable power and then it's you going from one green we will connect the yellow one as well sort of yellow on and go like this let's see when its power on [Applause] as you see its power on and this cable is for redundancy purposes so and you can have in total three switches like this so what I can do more or less now but I can remove this or we take this one is easier no this one remove this you see that the switch is still active I can move this power supply here connect it back in so it doesn't matter where I have the power supply's so if you only have two psus and two switches in the stack this is a good way to get redundancy so next up is the stack table so this is the stack table and it will go like this the flat surface that's surface again and flat surface flat surface so now it's fully connected normally you have more than two switches maybe have three so I will put the picture from Cisco's page on how to connect when you have three there is some limitations when you do this one you can only have four switches in one ring so you can stack four of them with this power stacking if you stuck in a different way in the star topology we can stack eight so thank you for watching I hope you did like it and if you want to see more videos 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Channel: Magnus Holmberg

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Length: 12min 31sec (751 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 09 2019