Setting up an irf fabric, Irf fabric setup flowchart – H3C Technologies H3C S5800 Series Switches User Manual

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Setting up an IRF fabric

You can use H3C Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology to connect and virtualize S5800

switches into a virtual switch called an "IRF fabric" or "IRF virtual device" for flattened network topology,

and high availability, scalability, and manageability.

IRF fabric setup flowchart

Figure 90 IRF fabric setup flowchart

To set up an IRF fabric:

Start

Plan IRF fabric setup

Install IRF member switches

Connect the grounding cable

and power cords

Power on the switches

Configure basic IRF settings

Connect the physical IRF ports

Slave switches reboot and the

IRF fabric is automatically

established

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