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Controller Migration Strategy

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  • 1.  Controller Migration Strategy

    Posted Jun 02, 2014 09:50 AM

    I'm upgrading a single 3600 controller to a  (2) 7200master-master controller setup.  What's the best approach to doing this?  My current idea is to join one the first 7200 controller with the old 3600 controller in master-master between them, test, then replace the 3600 with the other 7200.  What are your thoughts, and any gotcha's that I may be overlooking?


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  • 2.  RE: Controller Migration Strategy



  • 3.  RE: Controller Migration Strategy

    Posted Jun 02, 2014 10:10 AM

    I've already migrated 3600 to single 7200.  I'm asking more about migrating from single to multi.



  • 4.  RE: Controller Migration Strategy

    Posted Jun 02, 2014 10:22 AM

    Is it going to be Active-Active or Active-Standby ?



  • 5.  RE: Controller Migration Strategy

    Posted Jun 02, 2014 10:23 AM

    Active-Standby with VRRP and db synch between them.



  • 6.  RE: Controller Migration Strategy

    Posted Jun 02, 2014 10:29 AM

    Both controllers will be in the same L2 segment ?

    To migrate existing config from the 3600 to 7200 (Active Master)

    - Upgrade the 3600 to 6.2 and Up

    - Add the 7200 as a local to the 3600 that way it will push the config

    - Add the licenses

    - Then Make the 7200 a Master 

    -  Follow this :

    http://www.arubanetworks.com/vrd/CampusWNetworksVRD/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm#context=CampusWNetworksVRD&file=Chap5_Redundancy.html

     



  • 7.  RE: Controller Migration Strategy

    Posted Jun 04, 2014 10:37 AM

    What if there is no L2 between the controllers?

     

    The controllers will be going in 2 separate Datacenters, so I guess I'll have to do LMS/BLMS type redundancy? 



  • 8.  RE: Controller Migration Strategy

    Posted Jun 04, 2014 10:50 AM

    You can also use HA for your APs if you are running 6.3 AOS.



  • 9.  RE: Controller Migration Strategy

    Posted Jun 04, 2014 11:30 AM

    Unfortunately there are are SSIDs that are locally bridged, and according to the documentation HA only works when the SSIDs are tunneled.



  • 10.  RE: Controller Migration Strategy
    Best Answer

    Posted Jun 04, 2014 06:23 PM

    What if there is no L2 between the controllers? The controllers will be going in 2 separate Datacenters, so I guess I'll have to do LMS/BLMS type redundancy? 

     

    That is correct.

     

    In this case you configure Master/Local so this way both controllers will have the same consistent config