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  • 1.  ArubaOS VMC Cluster - Unicast VRRP?

    Posted May 07, 2020 08:40 PM

    We've got a requirement to deploy multiple virtual controllers in a 'large campus' topology with stretched L2 networks using VXLAN.

     

    Is there any guidance on whether the VRRP used by ArubaOS Clustering requires multicast support to work? Are there options to explicitly support unicast?



  • 2.  RE: ArubaOS VMC Cluster - Unicast VRRP?

    Posted May 07, 2020 08:47 PM

    In my experience, do not stretch clusters across sprawling physical switching infrastructures.  Cluster members rely on having sub 50 millisecond response times between each other to maintain a cluster membership.  Extending that across sprawling physical infrastructures that creates latency will lead to cluster reconvergence.



  • 3.  RE: ArubaOS VMC Cluster - Unicast VRRP?

    Posted May 07, 2020 08:59 PM

    Thanks and noted

     

    For interest's sake, is multicast support required for Cluster VRRP?



  • 4.  RE: ArubaOS VMC Cluster - Unicast VRRP?

    Posted May 07, 2020 09:17 PM

    A cluster VRRP is not required.  It is only useful for COA (Change of Authorization).  Besides that a VRRP is not required for a cluster.