S5720-EI Stack Card Stacking Support

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For the cables that can be used as stack cables, see "Cables" in the Hardware Description. Using other cables may cause exceptions in the stack system, for example, frequent error-down events on stack ports.
S5720-EI series switches are classified into S5720-C-EI, S5720-PC-EI, S5720-X-EI, and S5720-P-EI based on their uplink interface types.
In V200R009C00 and later versions, if MPLS-incapable S5720-EIs exist in a stack, this stack cannot have MPLS enabled. If member devices in a stack are running MPLS services, adding MPLS-incapable S5720-EIs to the stack is not allowed. To check whether S5720-EIs support MPLS, run the display device capability command.
The number of stacked switches is recommended to be 2 to 9. In addition, when using iMaster NCE-Campus to manage and maintain a stack, ensure that the stack has no more than four member switches.

Table 3-17 Stack card stacking support

Device Series	Port Supporting Stacking	Stack Cable	Rate of a Single Port	Remarks
S5720-C-EI and S5720-PC-EI	Two ports on each ES5D21VST000 stack card	1 m, 3 m, 5 m QSFP+ passive high-speed cables QSFP+ optical module (only QSFP-40G-SR4 and QSFP-40G-iSR4 supported) and matching optical fiber	21 Gbit/s	Any models of the S5720-EI series can set up a stack.
S5720-X-EI and S5720-P-EI	Two ports fixed on the rear panel	1 m, 3 m, 5 m QSFP+ passive high-speed cables QSFP+ optical module (only QSFP-40G-SR4 and QSFP-40G-iSR4 supported) and matching optical fiber	21 Gbit/s	Any models of the S5720-EI series can set up a stack.

This document describes the configurations of Device Management, including device status query, hardware management, Stack, SVF, cloud-based management, PoE, monitoring interface, OPS, energy-saving management, information center, fault management, NTP, synchronous ethernet, PTP.