Configuring Basic Irf Settings; Connecting The Physical Irf Ports; Accessing The Irf Fabric To Verify The Configuration - H3C S5500-HI Switch Series Installation Manual

Connecting the IRF member switches in a ToR solution
You can install IRF member switches in different racks side by side to deploy a top of rack (ToR)
solution. Figure 61
transceiver modules and optical fibers. The topology is the same as
Figure 61 Connecting top of rack switches

Configuring basic IRF settings

After you install the IRF member switches, power on the switches, and log in to each IRF member switch
(see H3C S5500-HI Switch Series Fundamentals Configuration Guide) to configure their member IDs,
member priorities, and IRF port bindings.
Follow these guidelines when you configure the switches:
Assign the master switch higher member priority than any other switch.
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• Bind physical ports to IRF port 1 on one switch and to IRF port 2 on the other switch.
To bind the ports on an interface card to an IRF port, you must install the interface card first. For how
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to install an interface card, see
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 H3C S5500-HI Switch Series IRF
Configuration Guide.

Connecting the physical IRF ports

Use correct cables to connect the IRF member switches as planned.
NOTE:
Wear an ESD wrist strap when you connect CX4/SFP+ cables or SFP+/XFP transceiver modules and
fibers. For how to connect them, see
Guide
and "Installing/removing a CX4/SFP+

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 ports:
1. Log in to the IRF fabric through the console port of any member switch.
2. Create a Layer 3 interface, assign it an IP address, and make sure the IRF fabric and the remote
network management station can reach each other.
shows an example for connecting nine top of rack IRF member switches by using SFP+
"Installing/removing an interface
H3C Pluggable SFP/SFP+/XFP Transceiver Modules Installation
cable."
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Figure 60.
card."