VMWare WLC setup question with dual VLAN at sites

[SMHUBBARD]

Multisite in same town design.

   VMWare WLC deployed at main site runs all remotes.  (7 sites). Sites are around town and not on same campus.  Flexconnect local deployed on Cisco 2702e APs.  Setup for two SSID's, one for data connections, other for Cisco 7921g wireless phones.  Each site has its own DHCP scope. 

   I tried to setup 2 seperate WLAN ID for each site however it does not like the reused SSID name.   I do not want to have to setup 7 profiles on everyones laptop to go between buildings.  Seen a post mentioning to use AP groups however the video link was removed so it went into a deadend.

[Scott Fella]

You don't need to have different profiles or SSID if the SSID name will be the same.  With FlexConnect access points, you will specify the wlan to vlan mapping.  If the access points are in local mode, they will use the interface assigned on the WLAN.

-Scott

[SMHUBBARD]

Thanks Scott,

  so what I had setup before was under each WLAN, was each the interfce pull down to the interface vlan.  I have now changed that to management and setup AP groups, each with the site's data and voice vlan defined under the AP group WLAN tab.  So instead of the multiple SSID listed, now only two are listed. 

I will have to take my test AP out to one of the other sites and move it to one of the new AP groups but this appears to be working on my current group I am testing from.

[Scott Fella]

What you also need to look at is the use of FlexConnect groups for each site.  There you can define a site specific wlan to vlan mapping that FlexConnect ap's at that site will use.

-Scott

[SMHUBBARD]

Thanks for reminder,

   I had those setup earlier but since making the other changes I needed to go back and define each site back to SSID 1(data) or 2 (voice) to each site native Vlan for data and voice.

[Scott Fella]

The only time you really need to have the same ssid but different profiles is when you are migrating from different encryptions.  Other than that, you really don't, there are various ways to get around the wlan to vlan mappings:)

-Scott