Setting Up An Irf Fabric; Irf Fabric Setup Flowchart - HP FlexNetwork 5120 SI Series Installation Manual

Setting up an IRF fabric

You can use Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology to connect
and virtualize 5120 SI switches into a virtual switch called an "IRF fabric" or "IRF virtual device" for
flattened network topology, and high availability, scalability, and manageability.

IRF fabric setup flowchart

Figure 22 IRF fabric setup flowchart
Plan IRF fabric setup
Install IRF member switches
Connect grounding cables and
power cords
Power on the switches
Configure basic IRF settings
Connect the physical IRF ports
Switches elected as slaves
reboot and the IRF fabric is
established automaticlly
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