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Understanding the best option for AP failover

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  • 1.  Understanding the best option for AP failover

    Posted Oct 12, 2017 07:57 AM

     

    I have a simple estate of a Master/Standay,

    2 x Locals on Site 1 and 2 X locals on site 2 connected over private fibre.

    Currently the HA is done with VRRP and 2 VRID with a Master on each of the locals.

     

    I recently reload one of the controllers and the AP took a while to come back, and if this would have been during the working day, would have impact.

     

    After researching a little, i was thinking of dowing Active:Active with both Locals in Dual mood and still load balance.

     

    Would this mean a GRE tunnel to both locals (primary and backup tunnel) and failover be in the seconds rather than minutes.

     

    Also would moveing to ArubaOS - 8 have more options? 



  • 2.  RE: Understanding the best option for AP failover

    Posted Oct 12, 2017 08:55 AM

    AOS8 has clustering, that would nearly eliminate any downtime in case of MD controller failure, but requires the MM in addition to your setup.