topic RE: Licenses in a VX9000 cluster in ExtremeWireless (WiNG)

Licenses in a VX9000 cluster

Vedran_Jurak — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 23:08:00 GMT

Hi,

We'd like to create a cluster of two VX9000 instances running at separate physical locations as part of redundancy.

There will be a total of 250 APs.

Active VX - 1x VX-9000-APPLNC-LIC and 2x VX-9000-ADP-64
Standby VX - 1x VX-9000-APPLNC-LIC

This should give us a total of 256 licenses. If the active VX goes down, do we still have 256 licenses, they should be shared?

Thanks,

Best regards.

RE: Licenses in a VX9000 cluster

Douglas_Novell — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 23:10:00 GMT

Hi Vedran,

Correct, the AP licenses will be shared and moved to secondary in a failover scenario . Please note however that both VX9000s within the cluster need to have appliance licenses.

RE: Licenses in a VX9000 cluster

Timo1 — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 23:13:00 GMT

Yes, you have the license count on booth systems. Also if you reload the other VX.

Only change cluster settings, if one of booth is offline.

There is a limit of x days, if the other cluster member is offline, for the cluster license. But it was high, like 90 or 180 days.

RE: Licenses in a VX9000 cluster

Vedran_Jurak — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 23:31:00 GMT

Thanks Douglas and Timo.

RE: Licenses in a VX9000 cluster

Andrew_Webster — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 23:56:00 GMT

The limit is 100 days.

If you split licenses 50/50 you would have 128 licenses per VX, but 256 total. That means you could have 256 APs on VX#1 and 0 on VX#2 or any combination thereof. It is preferable to adopt all APs to one of the two VX and run the cluster in active/standby.

RE: Licenses in a VX9000 cluster

Bin — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:58:00 GMT

Hi Vedran,

Kindly add our cluster document as the following URL:
https://documentation.extremenetworks.com/ExtremeWireless/CLUSTER_CONFIGURATION_HTG_REV1.2_EN.pdf

In WiNG 5.x two controllers can be part of a cluster for redundancy for services such as:

Access Point Adoption
License Sharing

Best regards
Bin