This lab simulates a real-world enterprise network upgrade involving the replacement and configuration of core switches, port migration, ACL deployment, and rollback planning. As this is a replacement upgrade, both switches which are core switches will have the same IP addresses configured on them. Here is the topology, I have created the trunk between the two (all VLANs allowed) which is working and I can ping the vlan1 address. I am working on a project to migrate the current Cisco switches (3700 series with Layer 3) to the new FortiSwitches (S248EF) and have a few questions with regards to the best, easy, and efficient way to do this with minimal down time. Everything that I have found online in the way of facilitating this is in the opposite direction i. Every migration requires planning. are you fine having some downtime when swapping the switch out? then just.
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