Connecting The Physical Irf Ports - HP FlexFabric 12900E series Installation Manual

For more information about configuring basic IRF settings, see HPE 12900E & 12900 Switch Series
IRF Configuration Guide.

Connecting the physical IRF ports

Follow these guidelines to connect the 10GE/40GE/100GE ports between the IRF member switches:
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Use SFP+ transceiver modules and fibers or SFP+ DAC cables to connect SFP+ ports. SFP+
DAC cables are mainly used for short distance transmission.
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Use QSFP+ transceiver modules and fibers or QSFP+ DAC cables to connect QSFP+ ports.
QSFP+ DAC cables are mainly used for short distance transmission.
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Use CXP transceiver modules and fibers or CXP optical cables to connect CXP ports. CXP
optical cables are mainly used for short distance transmission.
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Use CFP2 transceiver modules and fibers to connect CFP2 ports.
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Use twisted pair cables to connect 10GBase-T ports.
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When connecting SFP+ ports, connect the transmit port of the SFP+ transceiver module at one
end to the receive port of the SFP+ transceiver module at the other end.
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When connecting CFP2 ports, connect the transmit port of the CFP2 transceiver module at one
end to the receive port of the CFP2 transceiver module at the other end.
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The transceiver modules at the two ends of an IRF link must be the same type.
For more information about installing transceiver modules, see
information about connecting fibers, see
Figure 40 Connecting two IRF member switches
Verifying the IRF fabric configuration
After you finish configuring basic IRF settings and connecting IRF ports, verify the basic functionality
of the IRF fabric, as follows:
Log in to the IRF fabric through the console port of any member switch.
1.
Create a Layer 3 interface, assign it an IP address, and make sure the IRF fabric and the
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remote network management station can reach each other.
Use Telnet or SNMP to access the IRF fabric from the network management station. (See HPE
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12900E & 12900 Switch Series Fundamentals Configuration Guide.)
Verify that you can manage all member switches as if they were one node.
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