Wireless Access

Hi Everyone,

I have 2 Data center, As per data center have 1xMM and 3xMC.

On DC-1 MM is active

On DC-2 MM is Standby

When the internet operator need to use multi-tenant solution.

Question:

1. Operator need to buy 1 of standalone controller right?

What licenses needed?

Where to installed the licenses? On operator controller? On MM?

2. Operator use multi-tenant into MM right?

Multi-tenant to both of MM?

Or VRRP of MM?

Diagram show below.

Thank you.

Aruba Still doesn't support multi-tenancy in their controller. This is big turning point we lost a lot of customers.

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@Dinusha Chandrasinghe wrote:

Aruba Still doesn't support multi-tenancy in their controller. This is big turning point we lost a lot of customers.

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Your last post said "A" customer and now you are saying alot of customers.  Please talk to your Aruba Sales team specifically about your requirements.  Multi-Tenancy has many definitions.

SLT is ISP in Sri Lanka. They Provide Enterprise WiFi Solution for Lot of customers in Sri Lanka as a managed service provider.

Please talk to your HPE/Aruba sales team in specific about your opportunities to see if the specifc needs of this customer is a proper fit.

We have discussed with regional Sales and Technical and sales team. they don't have solution other than Aruba Central. Customer needs to host Aruba Centralin their DataCenter due to privacy. We are struggling to solve this matter. 

I am not sure, when you say Aruba doesn't support Multi-Tenant, what do you mean by that? 

Aruba does support Multi-zone, where, as it says:
"The MultiZone feature allows organizations to have multiple and separate secure networks while using the same access point. It also allows AP to terminate to multiple managed devices that reside in different zones. A zone is a collection of managed devices under a single administration domain. The zone can have a single managed device or a cluster setup."

I had a similar case when someone from the sales team told us that Aruba does not support WiFi Offload according to 3GPP, however we managed to win the project implement it and it is still working according to 3GPP specs. There are always different types of "namings" and "features" which are called diferently, but with a slight work-around you have it working properplly as the standard or feature requires. 

You also have a thread here on Airheads which even shows how to configure Multi-zone.
https://community.arubanetworks.com/t5/Wireless-Access/How-to-Configure-Multizone/td-p/481727

Hi,

I mean Multi-Tenancy is: Multi-tenancy is an architecture in which a single instance of a software application (WLC) serves multiple customers. Each customer is called a tenant

Our AP support this feature but Controller doesn't support this.

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@Dinusha Chandrasinghe wrote:

We have discussed with regional Sales and Technical and sales team. they don't have solution other than Aruba Central. Customer needs to host Aruba Centralin their DataCenter due to privacy. We are struggling to solve this matter. 

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If you have already discussed it with Sales and Technical Sales, hopefully you made it known with them what modifications you would like with the product, that is good.  The other place you can use to make your desire known is here:  http://innovate.arubanetworks.com

 Sir,

I'll do it now. I saw same requirement request in there.

I think we can achieve multi-tenancy in Aruba controller by allowing VRF in MCs.