Meshing across zonedirectors

Question

I have 3 ZoneDirectors, a 1000, 1100 and 3000, if I turn on meshing and set the mesh password the same on all zonedirectors will access points approved on different ZDs mesh happily, or will everything come to a grinding halt?

unknown · Answer

I like the sound of clusters - the current failover model requires having hardware and licenses sitting there doing nothing, which always seemed like a waste of resources. Would clustering also allow Dynamic PSK to work across multiple controllers?

michael_brado · Answer

We will support multiple controllers in a cluster (SCG and vSCG) soon, that will

allow APs to failover to other controllers if their current one goes offline.  This is

currently also available for two ZoneDirectors with equal firmware and AP licenses.

If you have separate controllers managing APs within range of each other, you

would not want to use same Mesh SSID, or any client WLAN SSIDs, as you can

not roam smoothly between APs managed by different controllers (as another

reason not to try the above).

unknown · Answer

Thanks, yes I meant setting the Mesh name the same too... which I now won't try.

This all came about when I had all 3 Zone Directors with meshing enabled (different essids), and at some point, it seems, all the 100-odd access points started querying each other as to if they were a valid mesh AP, and it just ended up bringing down the entire network.

I think what I will do is turn on meshing on only one Zone Director (the 3000) and leave the others without meshing.