We'll be deploying 205Hs into one of our Residence Halls next month, and a concern came up during the preparation. Currently the students have to go through a Device-Registration VLAN in their dorm rooms - they register their device and are granted access to the network. We will have the student room ports trunked to the 205Hs [Native VLAN - AP VLAN, with Dev-Registration Allowed] where the three-wired ports are then bridged/tagged to the Device-Registration VLAN system. The concern that came up during the preparation process was that I believe we will need *20 AP Groups* at minimum just for this one Residence Hall due to needing a separate Wired-Port-Profile with each switch's Device Registration VLAN-which is composed of 10 Houses with 2 Switches Per House - (Each Switch has a specific Dev-Reg VLAN - 20 Device-Registration VLANs Total). Worst Case, with how I believe profile hierarhcy works, we would then need *40 AP Groups* if we need separate profile groups with 2.4GHz Radios Disabled.
House 1 -> Device Registration 1 - 2.4GHz and 5GHz
House 1 -> Device Registration 2 - 2.4GHz and 5GHz
House 1 -> Device Registration 1 - 5GHz Only
House 1 -> Device Registration 2 - 5GHz Only
However, talking with the switches team/vlan teams, we may beable to get it down to just one device-registration VLAN per house for the 205Hs - which would definitely help as far as profile organization. I was just curious what others would do/have done in a similar situation - if there's a method of avoiding so many wired-port-profiles and in essence parent AP Groups.
Thanks!