Stacking switches Part - I (HPE IRF - Intelligent Resilient Framework)
Last couple of days I was busy configuring stacking of switches from different vendors. So, I thought it would be better to share my experiences and lessons that I have learned while configuring stacking technology from different network switch vendors. I will not go to the details of different stacking architectures, rather only try to cover how to configure them. First in line is - HPE IRF (Intelligent Resilient Framework). Let's define our network constraints; the example has following characteristics - The stack is consists of two (2) switches of same model and software version. In each switch two (2) ethernet ports are used for stacking purposes. The stacking ports in the switches are cross connected in ring topology. The switches are connected as the diagram below - Fig 01 - HPE IRF with 2 switches IRF allows stacking by using normal ethernet network ports, no special stacking ports are required. We have selected 2 forty gigabit et...