Setting Up An Irf Fabric; Irf Fabric Setup Flowchart - HP 3100-48 v2 Installation Manual

Setting up an IRF fabric

You can use HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology to connect and virtualize 3100-48 v2
switches into a virtual switch called an "IRF fabric" or "IRF virtual device" for flattened network topology,
and high availability, scalability, and manageability.
This chapter includes these sections:

IRF fabric setup flowchart

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Planning IRF fabric setup
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• Configuring basic IRF settings
Connecting the physical IRF ports
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Accessing the IRF fabric to verify the configuration
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IRF fabric setup flowchart
Figure 23 IRF fabric setup flowchart
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