https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/SmartZone-and-Virtual-SmartZone/VSZ-H-rebalancing-of-APs-between-nodes-in-a-cluster/m-p/30313#M2179 <P style="margin: 0;">Hello, may I ask how does the VSZ rebalance APs between nodes in a cluster without running a command to rebalance? Does it have a defined time on how often it will check the overall status then rebalance the APs on which node it will be assigned? If you could share a detailed guide on how does the VSZ does this step by step it would be great. Thanks in advance!</P> Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:34:39 GMT froilan_borja 2021-06-18T10:34:39Z https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/SmartZone-and-Virtual-SmartZone/VSZ-H-rebalancing-of-APs-between-nodes-in-a-cluster/m-p/30313#M2179 <P style="margin: 0;">Hello, may I ask how does the VSZ rebalance APs between nodes in a cluster without running a command to rebalance? Does it have a defined time on how often it will check the overall status then rebalance the APs on which node it will be assigned? If you could share a detailed guide on how does the VSZ does this step by step it would be great. Thanks in advance!</P> Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:34:39 GMT https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/SmartZone-and-Virtual-SmartZone/VSZ-H-rebalancing-of-APs-between-nodes-in-a-cluster/m-p/30313#M2179 froilan_borja 2021-06-18T10:34:39Z https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/SmartZone-and-Virtual-SmartZone/VSZ-H-rebalancing-of-APs-between-nodes-in-a-cluster/m-p/30314#M2180 <P style="margin: 0;">Hi</P> <P style="margin: 0;">In SZ system the AP determines which node it connect to.</P> <P style="margin: 0;">When it first gets configured it is given a list of control nodes available (C-list) in a pseudo random order.&nbsp; This should help spread out the AP load across multiple nodes.</P> <P style="margin: 0;">The AP will change nodes when the existing node stops responding to the AP initiated heartbeat messages (typically 12 heartbeats over 60 seconds).</P> <P style="margin: 0;">When an SZ node is unreachable for network reasons, node outage or perhaps congestion the initial balance can change.</P> <P style="margin: 0;">The AP's will naturally get somewhat re balanced over time based on congestion of the nodes but usually they will remain unbalanced.</P> <P style="margin: 0;">For this reason there is a re-balance AP option in the System::Cluster page under the "more" menu.</P> <P style="margin: 0;"></P> <P style="margin: 0;">When manually re-balanced the SZ will calculate the existing load on each node and send a new "C-list" to the AP's in an order that should re-balance the AP's across the multiple nodes and the AP's are informed to go into re-balance mode.&nbsp; It takes a few minutes for this calculation and configuration to be sent to the AP' s and about 40 minutes for the re-balance to work.</P> <P style="margin: 0;"></P> <P style="margin: 0;">Unfortunately today there is no automatic re-balance feature - it must be manually executed.</P> <P style="margin: 0;"></P> <P style="margin: 0;">I hope this answers your question.</P> <P style="margin: 0;"></P> <P style="margin: 0;">Thanks for choosing Commscope/Ruckus products.</P> <P style="margin: 0;"></P> <P style="margin: 0;"></P> Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:06:15 GMT https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/SmartZone-and-Virtual-SmartZone/VSZ-H-rebalancing-of-APs-between-nodes-in-a-cluster/m-p/30314#M2180 albert_pierson 2021-06-18T14:06:15Z