A customer has requested that you provide them with an architecture and bill-of-materials for a stack of top-of-rack switches. The customer has 34 HPE DL360 servers in the rack, each with four 1GBASE-T Ethernet ports which need to be connected to the network. The customer is upgrading 50% of the 1GBASE-T Ethernet ports on the servers to 10GBASE-T Ethernet ports and needs the switching to support the upgraded servers. They are opposed to a chassis switch, and want to keep the number of managed devices on the network to a minimum. Which architecture meets the customer requirements?

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The Aruba 8320 48-port 1/10GBASE-T switch supports VSX stacking, which allows multiple switches to be managed as a single logical device. This meets the customer's requirement to keep the number of managed devices on the network to a minimum. The switch also supports both 1GBASE-T and 10GBASE-T Ethernet ports, which meets the customer's requirement to upgrade 50% of the 1GBASE-T Ethernet ports on the servers to 10GBASE-T Ethernet ports.

A Customer Has Requested That You Provide Them with an Architecture