Hi, i've got a few quick questions about stacking on Dell switches.

1. I’ve created a stack between two switches, but the master role keeps switching. How do I make sure a specific switch is always the master regardless of the boot sequence? Is it the “switch priority” command? The lowest priority number will always become the master? What’s the default behavior (if the priority isn't specified)?

2. Does the “standby ” configure a specific switch to become the standby switch (even its currently the master)? What if that switch also has “switch priority” with a lower number than the other switch(s)?

3. Does “copy image unit all” copy the current active image on the master to all members? And then the “boot system ” will automatically reboot the member and also automatically update the bootcode?

4. If I want to connect two stack cables (EtherChannel, or LAG, whatever the term is) from SW1 to SW2, it would be a simple port-channel configuration, such as -for example- adding xg1 and xg2 to the port-channel?

5. The documentation suggests a ring topology when connecting the switches (last switch in the stack connect back to the first), in order to avoid a single point of failure in the stack chain. Wouldn’t spanning-tree see this as a loop? or perhaps not since the last to the first only has one direct path. Do i need to configure anything?

6. The documentation talks about a “boot auto-copy-sw” command to have all member switches check for the latest firmware (from the master) on boot up, but I don’t see such a command available on the switch. Does this command still exist?

7. Can I use the “Switch renumber” to renumber both the master and member switches?

8. I assume that the IP address of a member unit is unreachable?