I'm not immediately aware of any sort of limitation in the 4000 switch since all you should need to do to set up the inter-VLAN routing with the 5500 switch is establish a VLAN trunk (ISL or 802.1Q) ...

Have you been told that VLANs are the ultimate solution to your network woes? That they’ll magically secure your infrastructure, eliminate complexity, and solve all your traffic management headaches?

What they do, why they're useful, and how to get started A virtual local area network is a logical subnetwork that groups a collection of devices from different physical LANs. Large business computer ...