We plan to play with it in the lab after the start of year with a target of rolling it out next summer.
-Neil -- Neil Johnson [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <[email protected]> on behalf of "Sweetser, Frank E" <[email protected]> Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <[email protected]> Date: Monday, October 10, 2016 at 11:12 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 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/<controller 1> /md/prod/<controller 2> /md/rap /md/rap/<controller 3> /md/lpv /md/lpv/<controller 4> 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 <[email protected]> on behalf of Osborne, Bruce W (Network Operations) <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 7:20 AM To: [email protected] 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 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Sweetser, Frank E [mailto:[email protected]] 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 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
