Migrating Aruba Central Managed Instant APs to AOS 10

Upgrade process

1. Go to Global > Organization > Groups. On the Network Structure tab, find the group in which the InstantOS 8 APs are present.

2. Select the Virtual Conductor and/or APs to be migrated by clicking the entry in the list, then click the Move Devices button to choose a target AOS 10 enabled group as the destination
   

   

   
   
   Note

   Moving an IAP acting as the Virtual Controller (VC) also moves the member APs to the new group.

3. After this action, the following AP boot process starts:

   • Aruba Central upgrades APs to AOS 10.

   • APs boot up in AOS 10 mode and reconnect with Aruba Central using AOS 10 firmware.

   • Aruba Central performs a configuration audit and pushes the AOS 10 config from the destination group.

   • Aruba Central cleans up the old, swarm-related state.

Revert to Aruba Instant 8

If needed, convert the APs back to Aruba Instant 8:

1. Make sure a firmware compliance policy matching the current IAP version is configured on the original group.
   

   Caution

   Setting this compliance is crucial. If the compliance is not set and the AP is moved back into an Aruba Instant 8 group, a configuration mismatch will occur.

2. Move the APs back to the original group.

3. After the APs are moved, Aruba Central pushed the specified image to the APs. The APs reboot and resume operation as Aruba Instant 8 APs.