Stacking with X460-G2-48t-10GE4 and a X440-48t-10G best pratices.

[TS_MTL]

I am building out a 250 person floor.

I've settled on using 1U 48 port switches.

My thoughts on design were this...

Top of stack: X460-G2-48t-10GE4
Center of stack: X440-48t-10G
Bottom of stack: X460-G2-48t-10GE4

There will be 7 switches used in this stack. I know 8 is max.

I know I can stack these together, I am just confused on best practices.

Ideally I would like to use the 4x10G on each of the X460-G2-48t-10GE4 as my fiber runs to my server room.

Which then bring sup the question how do I link the X460 to the X440... I'm assuming via a stacking module.... But which one? Which cables?

And ultimately does my train of thought above "work".

This is a heavy network office. (Visual FX/Animation studio).

[Drew_C]

If you've already got the equipment, that's okay - I would, however, recommend that the Master and Backup nodes are the X460-G2s. The standby nodes being X440s will be okay.
Now, the X440-10G models don't have "native" stacking port and will need to use the 10G ports for alternate stacking (aka SummitStackV), thereby using up your 10G connections on the X460-G2s. It sounds like this will be less than ideal in your situation 😕