HP A5120 EI Series Installation Manual page 48

Figure 45 Cable connections for an IRF fabric with 1-port interface cards
Planning the cabling scheme for an A5120 SI IRF fabric
HP recommends that you use Gigabit SFP ports and HP A3600 Switch SFP Stacking Kit cables for IRF
connection.
Figure 46 shows two IRF connection schemes, and uses Gigabit SFP ports and HP A3600 Switch SFP
Stacking Kit cables for IRF connection. These schemes use a ring topology.
Figure 46 Connect the IRF member switches
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