Migrating from Catalyst 6513 to 4507

[stheriault99]

We are looking to replace both our Catalyst 6513 with two new Catalyst 4510RE.  I was looking for some documentation, on the best process to migrate, with minimal down time, but can't get my hands on anything.  Can somebody suggest any good documents?

[Reza Sharifi]

Not sure about any migration documentations, but if you are running HSRP or VRRP between your existing 6513 switches.  You can replace the VRRP or HSRP stand-by with a 4510 and make sure to bring it up as stand-by.  Once that is done, you can change the priority on the new 4500 so it become the active switch and the other 6500 stand-by.  Now you can replace the other 6500 with 4500 and bring it up as stand-by.

Warning: you need to have an outage window to do any of these procedures, as you can never know what may go wrong.

HTH