What is IRF port?

What is IRF port?

FACT:What is Intelligent Resilient Framework(IRF)? A logical IRF port is a logical port dedicated to the internal connection of an IRF virtual device. These ports cannot act as access, trunk or hybrid ports. An IRF port is effective only when it is bound to a physical IRF port.

What is IRF in HP switch?

IRF is essentially a virtual stacking technology that allows multiple switches to be managed and operate as a single large virtual switch, called an IRF fabric. This allows IT departments to cut down the complexity of network management.

What is HP VSF?

Overview. HP Virtual Switching Framework (VSF) technology virtualizes two physical devices in the same layer into one Virtual Fabric which provides high availability and scalability. A Virtual Fabric is therefore two physical devices in the same layer that utilize VSF technology.

How many devices can be connected to one IRF port?

Here is a picture of a four-devices-IRF-cluster: you need to bind two physical interfaces to one IRF port to give enough backbone speed between two physical devices. The devices are also connected as a circle to avoid split-brain.

Which is the highest priority for IRF ports?

The highest/best priority is “32”, so member 1 will get 32, member 2 will get 31 and so on. The default-value is 1. shutdown the interfaces (we will configure two IRF-ports/four physical ports for later extending): The IRF-Port configuration is ready.

Can a virtual switch be used in an IRF stack?

This tutorial is based on the HP 5920AF-24XG Switch (JG296A) but it can be used also with 51xx/55xx switches. With IRF, you can virtualise all physical switches to one virtual-switch, so you have one management-ip, one switching- and routing-system and you can interconnect link aggregations over more than one device.

What are the ports on a hp switch?

The devices are also connected as a circle to avoid split-brain. This doesn’t need to be done if you have only two devices. Every port on the 5920 switch is a SFP+ 10Gbit port. We will use Port 21-24 for our IRF uplinks. Physical devices are called “member”.