Setting Up An Irf Fabric; Irf Fabric Setup Flowchart; Planning Irf Fabric Setup - HP A10500 Series Installation Manual

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Setting up an IRF fabric

You can use IRF technology to connect and virtualize the switch into a virtual switch called an "IRF

fabric" or "IRF virtual device" for flattened network topology, high availability, scalability, and

manageability.

For more information about IRF, see HP A10500 Switch Series IRF Configuration Guide.

The setup flow is shown in

Configuration Guide for the software release you are using.

Figure 22 IRF fabric setup flowchart

Before you set up an IRF fabric, complete the following tasks:

Choose switch models for your network. You can establish an IRF fabric that comprises different

A10500 switch models.

Select LPUs that can provide 10-GE optical ports. The switch requires 10-GE optical ports for IRF

connection. For more information about the LPUs, see the chapter

compatibility

Select transceiver modules (XFP or SFP+) and fibers for long-haul IRF connection, or select SFP+

cables for short-haul IRF connection. For more information about transceiver modules and SFP+

cables, see the chapter

Plan the installation site.

Figure 24.

For the actual procedure, see HP A10500 Switch Series IRF

matrixes."

"Appendix B FRUs and compatibility

matrixes."

"Appendix B FRUs and

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