IRF Step up (Stacking Technology) on HP 5130 Swtiches
IRF (Intelligent Resilient Framework) considers two HP swtiches as one.
With this technology, you can build a stack using the Ethernet port without requiring dedicated stack port.
Advantages of IRF (Stacking) on HP switches
- no additional stack port like other vendor switches
- can use any port for stack configuration
In this article, i gonna explain about how to stack (IRF) on HP FlexNetwork 5130 Switches.
Requirements for making IRF,
-Two pairs of HP X240 SFP+ SFP+ DAC Cable
-Both switches mush have the same firmware
After that rechecking again its priority value.
Changing switch 2's MemberID to "2".
After that rechecking again on both switches' priority and MemberID value.
Plugin your SFP Cable into port 51 and 52 on both switches in order to check the cable(transceiver) is working well or not.
On switch1,
It will show the result of port status, vendor name and transfer distance of this cable.
Make sure the same step on switch2,
By seeing these results, both cables connection and transceivers are working well.
So, we need to add irf port configuration on switch1,
On switch 2,
After that checking irf status on switch 1,
If your result show like that your configuration is true and you can deploy in your environment.
All of these configuration are used and tested in real HP switches and you can take reference from my blog for your requirement.
Hope for enjoy learning,
Phone Myint Myat Zaw
23/2/2020 12:07PM
Requirements for making IRF,
-Two pairs of HP X240 SFP+ SFP+ DAC Cable
-Both switches mush have the same firmware
Check the firmware on both switches.
Checking switch-1 firmware.
Checking switch-2 firmware
both switches have the same firmware. So let go to IRF Port configuration.
Check MemeberID, Role and Priority on switch 1.
Also Switch 2.
Both switches are master role but we want to have one master in irf group. So we need to change switch-1 priority to be more higher than switch2. After that switch 1 will become Master and switch 2 will be Slave in this configuration.
Changing switch 1 's priority to 32.
Changing switch 2's MemberID to "2".
- system-view
- irf member 1 renumber 2
- save
- quit
- reboot
On switch1,
Make sure the same step on switch2,
So, we need to add irf port configuration on switch1,
On switch 2,
If your result show like that your configuration is true and you can deploy in your environment.
All of these configuration are used and tested in real HP switches and you can take reference from my blog for your requirement.
Hope for enjoy learning,
Phone Myint Myat Zaw
23/2/2020 12:07PM
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