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Setting up an IRF fabric
You can use H3C IRF technology to connect and virtualize the switches into a large virtual device
called an "IRF fabric" for flattened network topology, and high availability, scalability, and
manageability.
The S5120V3-EI, S5120V3-LI, and S5120V3-SI switch series can be divided into five groups. You
can only use the switches in the same group to set up an IRF fabric.
Table4-1 Switch groups
Group
Model
Group 1
S5120V3-EI switch series
Group 2
S5120V3-28P-HPWR-LI-Q, S5120V3-20P-LI, S5120V3-28P-LI,
S5120V3-52P-LI, S5120V3-28P-PWR-LI, S5120V3-52P-PWR-LI
Group 3
S5120V3-28P-HPWR-LI, S5120V3-28S-HPWR-LI, S5120V3-10P-LI,
S5120V3-10P-PWR-LI, S5120V3-12TP-HPWR-LI, S5120V3-28S-LI,
S5120V3-52S-LI, S5120V3-28S-PWR-LI, S5120V3-52S-PWR-LI
Group 4
S5120V3-36F-SI, S5120V3-28P-HPWR-SI, S5120V3-54P-PWR-SI
Group 5
S5120V3-10P-SI, S5120V3-28S-HPWR-SI-Q, S5120V3-28P-SI,
S5120V3-28S-SI, S5120V3-52P-SI, S5120V3-52S-SI