HP Aruba – IRF

HP IRF (Intelligent Resilient Framework)  are similar to Cisco VSS

1. Prepare the Switch
2. irf ports
3. irf port members
4. History
5. Links

Some basic information only

Prepare the Switch

renumber if needed

irf member 1 renumber 2

irf ports

every switch has two ports

irf-port <member>/1
irf-port <member>/2

irf port members

irf-port 2/1
 port group interface Ten-GigabitEthernet 2/0/21
 port group interface Ten-GigabitEthernet 2/0/22

History

IRF (Intelligent Resilient Framework) is an innovation from H3C.
Hewlett-Packard has acquired the H3C switch-technology.

Links

• https://www.elasticsky.de/2015/08/irf-basiskonfiguration/
• https://networkguy.de/how-to-build-an-irf-stack-with-hp-switches-5xxx/

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