Setting Up An Irf Fabric - H3C S5500-HI Switch Series Installation Manual

Setting up an IRF fabric

You can use H3C Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology to connect and virtualize S5500-HI
switches into a virtual switch called an "IRF fabric" or "IRF virtual device" for flattened network topology,
and high availability, scalability, and manageability.
Table 5 Model matrix for forming an IRF fabric
Model
S5500-34
C-HI
S5500-58
C-HI
S5500-34
F-HI
S5500-34
C-PWR-HI
S5500-58
C-PWR-HI
S5500-28
SC-HI
S5500-52
SC-HI
IMPORTANT:
To set up IRF connection between S5500-HI switches, you must use 10-Gigabit ports.
S5500-34 S5500-52
C-HI SC-HI
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
No No
No No
S5500-34 S5500-34
F-HI C-PWR-HI
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
No No
No No
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S5500-58 S5500-28
C-PWR-HI SC-HI
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
No Yes
No Yes
S5500-5
2SC-HI
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes