Identifying Physical Irf Ports On The Member Switches; Planning The Cabling Scheme - HP 5130-24G-4SFP+ EI Installation Manual

Identifying physical IRF ports on the member switches

Identify the physical IRF ports on the member switches according to your topology and connection
scheme.

Planning the cabling scheme

Use SFP+ cables or SFP+ transceiver modules and fibers to connect the IRF member switches. If the IRF
member switches are far away from one another, choose the SFP+ transceiver modules with optical fibers.
If the IRF member switches are all in one equipment room, choose SFP+ cables.
HP recommends that you use ring topology to connect the switches. The following describes cabling
schemes in ring topology.
Connecting the IRF member switches in one rack
Use short-haul and long-haul SFP+ cables to connect the IRF member switches (9 switches in this example)
in a rack as shown in
as connected in the rack.
Figure 37. The switches in the ring topology (see
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Figure 38) are in the same order