5406R ZL2 - do they support IRF/Stacking?

[JonathanBourke]

Richard, 

thanks for the input; understand your rationale for the vsf/both switches comment.

dont own the fibre, so looks like LACP is the way to go. Goal is spanned vlans to allow remote / IPSec clients to access multiple physical devices on a single subnet accross two locations.

[FabianK]

Hi Nick,

IRF is a comware propriatary solution, so not available on provision switches.

You might want to consider to check the meshing function of these switches.

Meshing is not that common, but a good solution for L2 Redundancy and load balancing.

Greetz Fabian

[Stephen A Swain]

VSF (IRF like) available in version 16 and later for 5400Rzl2. also VXLAN is there too. However, it's still early days, I'd expect there would be some bugs to iron out yet.

I was looking at dt-lacp for a dci. I'd rather not do LFN (long flat networks), but whatever the replacement feature, it does need to be 100% reliable, and dt has had some serious bugs. However, now that VSF and VXLAN are coming, I've kind of given up on dt.

Anyone know of production deployments of either VSF or VXLAN on the code which is so young?

I was looking at v16.01.0004, but that's got some major bugs STP wise.