Does Aerohive Scale?
Note: If you are a TL/DR type of person, let me give you the short answer to the title of the post: Yes!
For everyone else, I will try my hardest to keep this as short as possible. I will include as many pictures and CLI screens as I think are needed to help answer the scalability question, and no more. While I entertained the idea of making two separate posts regarding scalability, I felt it best to keep it to a single post since AP(Access Point) to AP communication and layer 3 roaming are best explained together. My wife and friends will tell you that I can be long-winded. I apologize in advance.
Let me just start by saying that I work for Aerohive Networks. I have been an employee of Aerohive for about 3 months. In that time, I have learned a tremendous amount about the overall Aerohive solution and architecture. Prior to working for Aerohive, I worked for a reseller that sold for Cisco(to include Meraki), Aruba, and Aerohive. I wasn’t unaware of Aerohive, but let’s be honest for a minute. Aerohive doesn’t have a lot of information out there around how their various protocols work. This Continue reading