You do not consume additional licenses for standby tunnels in a cluster. If you look at your license usage on your MM, you will see this.
SSH to your MM:
cd /mm
show license-usage
Details on the controller can validate my claim on the standby not consuming licenses:
(ARUBA-MC01) [MDC] #show license-usage ap
AP Licenses
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Type Number
---- ------
AP Licenses 1044
RF Protect Licenses 1044
PEF Licenses 1044
MM Licenses 4096
Controller License True
Overall AP License Limit 1044
AP Usage
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Type Count
---- -----
Active CAPs 860
Active RAPs 0
Remote-node APs 0
Active MUX 0
Active PUTN 0
Total APs 860
Standby AP Counts [Does not consume license]
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Type Count
---- -----
Standby RAPs 0
Total Standby APs 848
Remaining AP Capacity
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Type Number
---- ------
CAPs 184
RAPs 184
When you are using a cluster you do not want to be at more than 50% capacity on the two devices. If you are higher than this, you will not be fully redundant.
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Dustin Burns
Lead Mobility Engineer @WEI
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Original Message:
Sent: Nov 09, 2021 06:39 AM
From: MINSUNG LEE
Subject: Active, Standby Tunnel consumed AP count in VMC?
I trying lab with eval license.
and, I have 2 VMCs and 2 APs.
and, I have configured VMC cluster.
It seems that there are two settings in MC-VA-10 mode. So, 20 APs and 512 users appear.
Is it correct for Active and Standy tunnels to consume one license each?
If that's true, when I purchase the VA-1K license, I can actually only use 500 physical APs.
is this right?
Also, for example, 2 HMC(7030) has a maximum of 128 APs, but I wonder if only 64 physical APs work in a cluster configuration.