Thanks for your response Mike. I've been looking at the hardware requirements and the supervisor modules that I currently have installed does not support VSS however it does mention that if you use a 10GE module it provides the capability to configure VSS.

Thanks,

Garry

Thanks for your response Mark... Since VSS is not available what other way of setting up redundancy would you recommend. .HSRP??

VSS will make 2-6509's look like 1 6509. similar to stackable switches. There is no need for HSRP. STP configuration is also much easier. You need to make sure you have code that runs VSS. You need sup720. And you need to etherchannel the 2 6509's together via 10GB links. Perferrably 2 differnt cards for redundancy. VSS lso only supports 67XX model line cards. Your 65XX cards will not work.

Hello Garry,

HSRP or better GLBP can be good choices and can be deployed in different Vlans.

This can provide L3 redundancy.

Note about VSS:

your current supervisors (sup720 3B) doesn't support VSS.

A specialized hardware is needed because the VSS is an export of chassis backplane over 10GE links.

The target of VSS is to allow to a single supervisor to handle all the linecards on both chassis with the other in standby.

So it is not enough to have 10GE linecards on the chassis to be able to support VSS.

Hope to help

Giuseppe

Yes HSRP or GLBP would be the next best thing. Also if you are running redundant supervisors make sure they are running in SSO mode instead of RPR.

HTH,

Mark