Benefits of VSF

​Simplified topology and easy management

A VSF fabric appears and behaves as one logical switch and is accessible by the network through a single IP address.

	NOTE: Spanning tree features are not necessary among VSF members.

​1:1 redundancy

One member acts as the Commander to manage and control the entire VSF fabric. The other switch acts as a Standby and backs up the commander, and takes over if the commander fails.

​VSF link aggregation

Up to eight VSF ports can be assigned between neighboring members. This creates a load-balanced aggregate VSF connection with redundancy.

​Multichassis link aggregation

The Ethernet link aggregation feature can be used to aggregate physical links between the VSF and its upstream or downstream devices across the VSF members. This helps eliminate the need for spanning tree and also provides load balancing across across all ports of the link aggregate.

​Network scalability

The processing power is equal to the Commander, the forwarding capacity is equal to both the Commander and the Standby combined.