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Setting up an irf fabric, Irf fabric setup flowchart – H3C Technologies H3C S12500-X Series Switches User Manual

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Setting up an IRF fabric

You can use H3C IRF technology to connect and virtualize S12500-X switches into a large virtual switch

called an "IRF fabric" for flattened network topology, high availability, scalability, and manageability.

For more information about IRF, see H3C S12500-X Switch Series IRF Configuration Guide.

IRF fabric setup flowchart

The setup flow is shown in

Figure 37

. For the actual procedure, see H3C S12500-X Switch Series IRF

Configuration Guide for the software release you are using.

Figure 37 IRF fabric setup flowchart

To set up an IRF fabric: