We plan to play with it in the lab after the start of year with a target of
rolling it out next summer.
-Neil
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Neil Johnson
neil-john...@uiowa.edu<mailto:neil-john...@uiowa.edu>
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
on behalf of "Sweetser, Frank E"
Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 11:12 PM
To: "WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU"
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone else jumping on Aruba 8.0 code?
I haven't been able to try out the multiple version support yet, as there's
currently only a single version of 8.0 out there so far =)
That said, you should definitely check out the hierarchical configuration
feature set.
Basically, the configuration becomes a pair of trees, one for your mobility
masters, and one for your managed devices. So for your case, you could set up
a structure that looks something like this:
/md/prod
/md/prod/
/md/prod/
/md/rap
/md/rap/
/md/lpv
/md/lpv/
The structure uses inheritance, so for controller 1, all you would have to
explicitly configure is just enough to get it online - ports, vlans, IP, and so
on. Global setitings would live in /md, and all of the interesting settings
would live in /md/prod, /md/rap, and /md/lpv, and would automatically get
applied to controllers based on where they get placed. You can create multiple
levels, if you have really interesting configuration layouts. This should let
you keep all of the configurations neatly sorted on a single mobility master
(or redundant pair, presumably.)
I've just switched our lab managed devices from the 6.4 HA pair to the newer
cluster configuration. It's gone some nice improvements, such as always
terminating user traffic on the same controller throughout roaming regardless
of what primary controller each AP is on. The little bit of lab testing I've
done has gone pretty well so far, but I should have more data when I move about
60 APs over to 8.0 code next week.
Frank Sweetser
Director of Network Operations
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong." -
HL Mencken
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
on behalf of Osborne, Bruce W (Network
Operations)
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 7:20 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone else jumping on Aruba 8.0 code?
We have installed a VM and will be evaluating it as time permits.
Unless there are some major “must-have” features though, we will not likely
deploy in full Production until after the second GA release.
I am interested in your experiences, though. One new feature is the ability to
manage multiple master controllers, even if they run differing versions of
ArubaOS (8.0+). Have you tried that feature yet?
We currently have 3 non-testing master controllers – Production, Remote (RAP) &
LPV. It would be great to centralize management of them.
Bruce Osborne
Wireless Engineer
IT Network Operations - Wireless
(434) 592-4229
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From: Sweetser, Frank E [mailto:f...@wpi.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 7, 2016 10:27 PM
Subject: Anyone else jumping on Aruba 8.0 code?
Hey all,
For those of you who haven't been following the early code releases from Aruba,
AOS 8 is a major upgrade, to the point where there's no actual upgrade path
from AOS 6.x. It's got some pretty slick features, though, for those brave
enough to jump in and blow a test environment. We're dipping our toes in here,
working very closely with Aruba support. We've had some wrinkles to work out,
as expected in any x.0.0 release, though so far the resources we've been given
have been right on top of them.
So my question is, has anyone else tried out the 8.0 code on any decently sized
production scale, and if so, how's it worked out?
(Alternatively, for those who haven't tried it at all, I'd be happy to answer
any questions I can from my limited deployment so far.)
thanks everyone!
Frank Sweetser
Director of Network Operations
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong." -
HL Mencken
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