Connecting The Physical Irf Ports; Verifying The Irf Fabric Configuration - HP A10500 Series Installation Manual

Bind physical ports to IRF port 1 on one switch and to IRF port 2 on the other switch.
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Execute the display irf configuration command to verify the basic IRF settings.
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For more information about configuring basic IRF settings, see HP A10500 Switch Series IRF
Configuration Guide.

Connecting the physical IRF ports

Connect the physical IRF ports of switches using these guidelines:
Use XFP transceiver modules and fibers to connect 10-Gigabit XFP ports.
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You can use SFP+ transceiver modules and fibers to connect 10-Gigabit SFP+ ports over a long or
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short distance, and use SFP+ cables to connect 10-Gigabit SFP+ ports over a relatively short
distance.
The transceiver modules at the two ends of an IRF link must be the same type.
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When connecting XFP or SFP+ ports, connect the transmit port of a XFP or SFP+ transceiver module
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at one end to the receive port of a XFP or SFP+ transceiver module at the other end.
For more information about installing transceiver modules, see the chapter
information about connecting fibers, see the chapter
Figure 23 Connecting two IRF member switches

Verifying the IRF fabric configuration

After you finish configuring basic IRF settings and connecting IRF ports, verify the basic functionality of
the IRF fabric:
Log in to the IRF fabric through the console port of any member switch.
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Create a Layer 3 interface, assign it an IP address, and make sure that the IRF fabric and the
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remote network management station can reach each other.
Use Telnet or SNMP to access the IRF fabric from the network management station. (See HP
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A10500 Switch Series Fundamentals Configuration Guide.)
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