Setting Up An Irf Fabric; Irf Fabric Setup Flowchart - HP A5120 EI Series Installation Manual

Setting up an IRF fabric

You can use HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology to connect and virtualize A5120 EI
switches or A5120 SI switches into a virtual switch called an "IRF fabric" or "IRF virtual device," for
flattened network topology and high availability, scalability, and manageability.
NOTE:

IRF is not available on the A5120-24G EI or A5120-48G EI switch. The "A5120 EI switches" in this document
does not include those two switch models.
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An IRF fabric cannot have both A5120 EI and A5120 SI switches.

IRF fabric setup flowchart

Figure 38 IRF fabric setup flowchart
Start
Plan IRF fabric setup
Install IRF member switches
Connect grounding cables and
power cords
Power on the switches
Install interface cards
(only on A5120 EI)
Configure basic IRF settings
Connect the physical IRF ports
Switches elected as slaves
reboot and the IRF fabric is
established automaticlly
End
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