VLANS for AP's and Switches

[rkowals]

We are installing new Aerohive switches in place of our old Cisco switches, we currently have a few dozen Aerohive AP's that are running on native VLAN 1. Our Cisco has VLAN 2 for phones and VLAN3 for Data. Do I need to completely change the VLANs for all the Aerohive Devices (AP/Switch) and start from scratch?

[rkowals]

I have created the default templates for the SR2348, SR2324, SR2208, Our core switch is still a Cisco unit, all others will be Aerohive. So under Configure ports, is there a way of changing the VLANS all at once, VLAN 2 for voice and VLAN 3 for data?

[bruce_stahlin]

We've been replacing our Cisco access switches over the last several years. There's no need to redesign your network unless you would like to. You want to setup you uplink/downlink ports, including those for APs, as trunk ports. You can also configure Etherchannel or LACP for these links. Per Sam's recommendation, configure your station ports as phone/data ports and set the VLANs accordingly.

As best practice, I would recommend not using VLAN 1 for L3 traffic. For further reasons, see http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=2181837&seqNum=11

[samantha_lynn]

You can host multiple VLANs on Aerohive switches by setting the port types to trunk ports in the device template. We also have a phone & data port type available for our switches as well. You can find the device templates by going to Configure> Opening the Network Policy> Moving to the Device Templates tab within the Network Policy> Opening the Switch Templates tab. Is that what you were looking for?