Good day, everyone. My background is primarily Cisco, so I'm still cutting my teeth on Juniper's way of doing things.
We have a virtual chassis composed of four EX-3300 48-port switches: One master, one backup, and two linecard, all located in the same LAN closet. All of the switches have uplinks to a Palo Alto PA-500 network appliance. There are fourteen VLANS defined in this VC.
We are in a situation where we need to extend this network to a satellite facility. The fiber run is in place, and all I need now is guidance on how to extend our network presence from our LAN closet to this facility a few miles down the road.
My understanding, from the documentation, is that EX3300 switches CANNOT run in a mixed virtual chassis, which presents a problem. We would like to do the following:
1. Connect the current VC to an EX2200-24P switch, located at the satellite facility.
2. Connect an EX2300-C-12P to the EX2200 above, so that we can extend the network to a neighboring outbuilding.
If I cannot add these switches to the existing VC and run in mixed mode, what are my options? These switches need to be able to see all of the resources the VC manages.