Wireless Access

We have 1 office that is still running in Instant Cluster for the Aruba Wireless setup with a lower version (8.3).  It is working fine but we will eventually want to convert the setup to be in Campus mode.

We have 2 Mobility Conductors running version 8.7 and all of our remotes offices have 2 Mobility Controllers (hardware) that are also running version 8.7.  When we eventually take a visit to that 1 location we will convert the Aruba WiFi to campus mode.  At that time the version installed on the Mobility Controllers will automatically update the Instant Access POints to be the same version level as the Mobility Controllers.     Since I am planning on updating teh environment to verison 8.10 my questions are:

1).  Should I proceed and update the Instant version to 8.7  then convert the IAP to campus mode and install the Aruba 8.7 automatically from the mobility controllers?

      a.  Then after the IAP's are in campus mode and have version 8.7 installed, then  update teh controllers to version 8.10.

2).  Or should I update the controllers in that office to 8.10 and then when I am ready to convert teh IAP from instant mode to campus mode update directly to version 8.10.X?

We have 1 office that is still running in Instant Cluster for the Aruba Wireless setup with a lower version (8.3).  It is working fine but we will eventually want to convert the setup to be in Campus mode.

We have 2 Mobility Conductors running version 8.7 and all of our remotes offices have 2 Mobility Controllers (hardware) that are also running version 8.7.  When we eventually take a visit to that 1 location we will convert the Aruba WiFi to campus mode.  At that time the version installed on the Mobility Controllers will automatically update the Instant Access POints to be the same version level as the Mobility Controllers.     Since I am planning on updating teh environment to verison 8.10 my questions are:

1).  Should I proceed and update the Instant version to 8.7  then convert the IAP to campus mode and install the Aruba 8.7 automatically from the mobility controllers?

      a.  Then after the IAP's are in campus mode and have version 8.7 installed, then  update teh controllers to version 8.10.

2).  Or should I update the controllers in that office to 8.10 and then when I am ready to convert teh IAP from instant mode to campus mode update directly to version 8.10.X?

What if one had purchased 10 access points but only needed 8 of them and had the remaining 2 setup for backup purposes.  But we only every used 1 of the Acces spoints for a 'spare'.  The other backup just remained in the box.  

Will that other AP that came with version 8.0 and is AP-345 be able to upgrade to 8.10.X right away?  Or should it be updated to 8.7 and then to 8.10?

We have 1 office that is still running in Instant Cluster for the Aruba Wireless setup with a lower version (8.3).  It is working fine but we will eventually want to convert the setup to be in Campus mode.

We have 2 Mobility Conductors running version 8.7 and all of our remotes offices have 2 Mobility Controllers (hardware) that are also running version 8.7.  When we eventually take a visit to that 1 location we will convert the Aruba WiFi to campus mode.  At that time the version installed on the Mobility Controllers will automatically update the Instant Access POints to be the same version level as the Mobility Controllers.     Since I am planning on updating teh environment to verison 8.10 my questions are:

1).  Should I proceed and update the Instant version to 8.7  then convert the IAP to campus mode and install the Aruba 8.7 automatically from the mobility controllers?

      a.  Then after the IAP's are in campus mode and have version 8.7 installed, then  update teh controllers to version 8.10.

2).  Or should I update the controllers in that office to 8.10 and then when I am ready to convert teh IAP from instant mode to campus mode update directly to version 8.10.X?