When talking about "classic" IOS, the platforms and IOS are meant to start accepting pings in about five to seven minutes. 3850 will depend if the IOS is in Install mode or Bundle mode with Bundle mode booting up the longest. It looks like for 48 ports, our only choice is managed switches (Dell, Cisco/Linksys,HP, etc). For. Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and Cisco software image support. Review the sections in this module before performing your initial switch. We have a pair of Dell N3224P-ON switches and today's morning my colleague gave me a task and instructions to remove some unused VLANs. To deploy this switch effectively and ensure trouble-free operation, you should first read the relevant sections in this guide so that you are familiar with all. Then you only backup config for the Core switches and/or VLAN switches, which maybe the same make/model as the rest of the other switches (buy 1 as cold standby for every 5 or 10 switch).
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