Remote 5508 Standby Controller HA-SKU

[Michael Shelton]

How does the standby HA-SKU controller that is located remotely miles away maintains it's heartbeat while serving as backup to multiple sites.


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[George Stefanick]

Hi Michael,

There are different deployments of HA with the HA-SKU.

1) You have AP-SSO/Client-SSO this is where the controllers are 1 - 1 sync and not 1 to multiple.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/technotes/7-5/High_Availability_DG.html

2) You have HA N+1 backup. This is where the WLC turned into HA converts to MAX licenses and acts like a fullly licensed controller. You can back up 1 to many in this design.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/technology/hi_avail/N1_High_Availability_Deployment_Guide/N1_HA_Overview.html

Hope this helps

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[Scott Fella]

Just to add... You don't want to do AP SSO over layer 3 unless you are spanning your subnets. What you need to do is N+1 which is what George also posted. There is no heartbeat between the two with N+1 like in AP SSO.

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[George Stefanick]

I just deployed 5 hospitals with N+1 and it works well ..

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[Scott Fella]

Agreed.... it does work well.... compared to AP SSO:)

Sorry Leo... hehe

Thanks,

Scott

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[Michael Shelton]

Thanks Guys I appreciate the information


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