Hi Chad, We made the move a few months back, running on new controllers in parallel with our 6.x infrastructure. We are still running in parallel, with some buildings with older APs on the older 6.x code and controllers.
This worked well for us, and having gone through it, would recommend it. I have no experience with their upgrade process We started fresh, pretty much mirroring our 6.x config on the new controllers. IIRC, we wiped and re-started from the beginning at least 2-3 times as we went. The new managed device structure takes some getting used to, and you'll need to make sure you know how to look at the received config at the controller level. There were a few things that seemed to either work in the CLI and not in the UI, or vice versa, but we never found anything we couldn't work around. We have a few cases open on minor issues, and one AP reboot issue. It is still a fairly new code base. I would engage your local SE and get their assistance. Once we had a basic config working, ours came down to review it. ajs On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Chad Patterson <[email protected]> wrote: > We are planning to move to the Aruba 8.0 controller architecture/code at > some point in the future and We’d like to know how it was for those of you > who have made the move. Was it painful? Any unexpected issues? Any > information or experience you can provide would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks all! > > > > Chad Patterson > > Network Administrator > > ITS-Wireless > > Florida State University > > (850) 645-3402 > > [email protected] > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/ > discuss. > > -- *Tony Skalski* System Administrator | IT *Office: *507-786-3227 <(507)786-3227> 1510 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, MN 55057 stolaf.edu ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
