Chapter 10 Managing Stacking And Redundancy; Manage Stacking - NETGEAR ProSafe WC7520 Reference Manual

Managing Stacking and Redundancy
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This chapter includes the following sections:
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Manage Stacking

• Manage Redundancy
Manage Stacking
The wireless controller supports stacking of up to three units for management of up to 150
access points through purchased licensing (see
controller functions as the primary controller (also known as the master), and the other two
wireless controllers function as secondary controllers (also known as slaves).
The following figure shows a stacked configuration that is licensed to manage up to
120 access points:
• Two controllers
• One controller (3) supports up to 20 access points.
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3
Figure 79.
The wireless controllers that you intend to make members of the stack need to be connected
over a wired connection. A switch or router can be located between the wireless controllers
that are part of a stack.
You configure the primary and secondary controllers individually, enable stacking on all
controllers, and then synchronize their access point configurations with the primary
(1 and 2) each support up to 50 access points.
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Licenses on page 18). One wireless
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