Meru Technical Note - Does Meru controller supports VLAN pooling?

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Description

Does Meru controller support VLAN pooling?

Scope

KB ARTICLE TYPE:Design

RELATED PRODUCTS: All Meru products.

RELATED SOFTWARE VERSIONS: All SD versions

KEYWORDS: VLAN pooling

Solution

Yes. This feature is available from SD 8.x.

VLAN Pooling

To reduce big broadcast or risking a chance of running out of address space, you can now
enable VLAN pooling in an ESS profile.
VLAN pooling essentially allows administrators to create a named alias using a subset of
VLANs thereby creating a pool of address. By enabling VLAN pool, you can now associate a
client/device to a specific VLAN. This allows you to effectively manage your network by monitoring
appropriate or specific VLANs pools.

Features
• You can associate up to 8 VLANs to a pool.
• You can create a maximum of 64 VLAN Pools.
• You can specify the maximum number of clients that can be associated to a VLAN.
• The client/device behaviour does not change after it is associates to a VLAN in a pool.
• If a VLAN is removed from a VLAN pool, clients/devices connected to the VLAN will continue
to be associated to the VLAN. However, if the clients disconnect and reconnect the
VLAN will change.