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1. | Plan IRF fabric setup |
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3. | Connect | the | grounding | See “Grounding the switch” and “Connecting the power cord.” | ||
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4. | Power on the switches |
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5. | Install interface cards |
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| See “Installing/removing an interface card (only for the 5120 EI switches).” | |||||
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7. | Connect the physical IRF | See “Connecting the physical IRF ports.” | ||||
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Planning IRF fabric setup
Planning IRF fabric size and the installation site
Choose switch models and identify the number of required IRF member switches, depending on the user density and upstream bandwidth requirements. The switching capacity of an IRF fabric equals the total switching capacities of all member switches.
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As your business grows, you can plug a switch into an IRF fabric to increase the switching capacity without any topology change or replacement.
Identifying the master switch and planning IRF member IDs
Determine which switch you want to use as the master for managing all member switches in the IRF fabric. An IRF fabric has only one master switch. You configure and manage all member switches in the IRF fabric at the command line interface of the master switch.
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IRF member switches will automatically elect a master. You can affect the election result by assigning a high member priority to the intended master switch. For more information about master election, see the IRF configuration guide for your switch.
Prepare an IRF member ID assignment scheme. An IRF fabric uses member IDs to uniquely identify and manage its members, and you must assign each IRF member switch a unique member ID.
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