I'm trying to figure out the pros/cons of Ruckus/Brocade MCT (multi-chassis trunking) vs regular stacking. We have a pair of ICX 7750s that will be LACP connected hub-and-spoke style to a few stacks of ICX 7250s. There's a holy war brewing here were one faction want's to connect the 7250s together through MCT and another faction that says stacking them would be better. The physical connections and redundancy will be exactly the same under both methods. The stacking group say their method is better because there's only one management interface, configs/tables are fully synced between all members and there's no spanning tree convergence in the event of a failure. The MCT group says that's better because there are two independent switches with seperate configs/tables and if someone screws up a live config it won't affect the other member and traffic will continue to flow. I should mention that the 7750s will be in the same rack.
Does anyone here have a preference for one over the other and if so, why?
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