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Virtual Mobility Controller?

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  • 1.  Virtual Mobility Controller?

    Posted Apr 19, 2016 12:42 PM

    Hi All,

     

    Whilst grabbing a few eval licenses for my lab in preparation for my ACCX exam I noticed an option for "Virtual Mobility Controller".. See below. 

     

    2016-04-19 17_39_08-Licensing Management System.png

     

    Have I missed out on some news or something?

     

    Cheers

    James



  • 2.  RE: Virtual Mobility Controller?
    Best Answer

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Apr 19, 2016 12:55 PM
    The new AOS 8 architecture uses a virtualized services controller. This was
    demoed at ATM16.


  • 3.  RE: Virtual Mobility Controller?

    MVP GURU
    Posted Apr 19, 2016 01:09 PM
    @cappalli wrote:
    The new AOS 8 architecture uses a virtualized services controller. This was
    demoed at ATM16.

    Sure...

    it is available from some year...

    There is a special "VM" edition on price list about DoD release...



  • 4.  RE: Virtual Mobility Controller?

    Posted Apr 19, 2016 01:16 PM

    Thanks both. I wasn't aware. Haven't seen any ATM16 stuff yet but I'm going to the EMEA event so will catch up then!



  • 5.  RE: Virtual Mobility Controller?

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Apr 19, 2016 02:38 PM

    Note as well that right now, with VMC, we only support VPN and VIA for specific US Dept of Defense applications. 



  • 6.  RE: Virtual Mobility Controller?

    Posted Sep 25, 2016 02:17 PM

    Where can I download the VMC? I only see the MM-ova under ArubaOS 8 downloads.



  • 7.  RE: Virtual Mobility Controller?

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Sep 25, 2016 02:31 PM

    An Ova is a VMWARE Virtual Machine.  Is that what you are talking about?



  • 8.  RE: Virtual Mobility Controller?

    Posted Sep 25, 2016 02:50 PM
    Yes I'm looking for the VMWare Virtual Mobility Controller download.


  • 9.  RE: Virtual Mobility Controller?

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Sep 25, 2016 05:21 PM

    The ova is the Virtual Mobility Controller (mobility master) download.  Access Points cannot be terminated on the Virtual Mobility controller, however...



  • 10.  RE: Virtual Mobility Controller?

    Posted Sep 26, 2016 03:38 AM

    If they are the same, then why are there 2 installation guides:

    VMC:

    https://support.arubanetworks.com/Documentation/tabid/77/DMXModule/512/Command/Core_Download/Default.aspx?EntryId=22494

    VMM:

    https://support.arubanetworks.com/Documentation/tabid/77/DMXModule/512/Command/Core_Download/Default.aspx?EntryId=22495

     

    If you skip to the add license section in both of the manuals you can see a difference where the VMC has a serial number and de VMM has not.

     

    My deployed ova looks the example in the VMM manual and doesn't have a serial number. Can I generate a serial number somehow?

     

    And will it be possible to terminate ap's in the future? Maybe just a few for a lab/learning environment.



  • 11.  RE: Virtual Mobility Controller?

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Sep 26, 2016 03:41 AM
    VMC is not yet released. Please work with your Aruba account team.


  • 12.  RE: Virtual Mobility Controller?

    Posted Sep 26, 2016 03:49 AM

    I will, thanks for the clarification.