Switching Labs
Stacking vs MLAG: Failure Fridays
Break things on purpose. Compare control plane coupling, upgrade strategies, and how each choice reads during incidents.
Tuition (informational)
720,000 KRW
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Studio Fridays
3 sessions · 13 lab hours
Scenario brief
You inherit two campuses with different campus switching philosophies. Friday labs introduce failures while mentors narrate what operators actually hear on bridges. Expect messy logs, impatient chat threads, and the need to defend your choice without tribal slogans.
Lead mentor
Sora Kwak
Designs switching labs the way rehearsal studios build tour rigs.
Inside the lab
- Fault injection playbook with severity labels
- Role-played bridge updates from stakeholders
- Side-by-side telemetry for stacking vs MLAG
- Written postmortem template tuned for leadership skims
- Mentor critique on clarity, not heroics
- Checklist for maintenance windows with mixed vendors
- Capstone: recommend a path with operational tradeoffs spelled out
Outcomes
- Pick a campus strategy with honest failure modes
- Run upgrades without surprise traffic cliffs
- Communicate risk without burning trust
Logistics questions
Cohort notes
“Failure Fridays in Stacking vs MLAG gave me language for risks I used to shrug through.”
Owen · Lead technician
Via survey
“The bridge role-play felt awkward for five minutes, then invaluable.”
Suji