Planning The Cabling Scheme; Configuring Basic Irf Settings; Connecting The Physical Irf Ports; Accessing The Irf Fabric To Verify The Configuration - HP 6125G Installation Manual

Planning the cabling scheme

Use SFP+ cables or SFP+ transceiver modules and fibers to connect the IRF member switches.
SFP+ cables—Reliable and suitable for IRF connection over a relatively short distance.
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SFP+ transceiver modules and fibers—More flexible and suitable for IRF connection over a long
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distance.
Table 9 and
IRF connections.

Configuring basic IRF settings

After you install the IRF member blade switches, power on the blade switches, and log in to each IRF
member blade switch (see HP 6125 Blade Switch Series Fundamentals Configuration Guide) to configure
their member IDs, member priorities, and IRF port bindings.
For more information about configuring basic IRF settings, see HP 6125 Blade Switch Series IRF
Configuration Guide.

Connecting the physical IRF ports

Use SFP+ cables or SFP+ transceiver modules and fibers to connect the IRF member switches as planned.
NOTE:
Wear an ESD-preventive wrist strap when you connect SFP+ cables or SFP+ transceiver modules and
fibers. For how to connect them, see

Accessing the IRF fabric to verify the configuration

To verify the basic functionality of the IRF fabric after you finish configuring basic IRF settings and
connecting IRF port:
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 that the IRF fabric and the
2.
remote network management station can reach each other.
Use Telnet, web, or SNMP to access the IRF fabric from the network management station. (See HP
3.
6125 Blade Switch Series Fundamentals Configuration Guide.)
Check that you can manage all member switches as if they were one node.
4.
Display the running status of the IRF fabric by using the commands in
5.
Table 4 Displaying and maintaining IRF configuration and running status
Task
Display information about the IRF fabric
Display all members' configurations
Table 10 list the SFP+ transceivers and SFP+ cables available for the HP 6125 blade switch
Pluggable SFP[SFP+][XFP] Transceiver Modules Installation Guide
Command
display irf
display irf configuration
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Table 4.
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