I don’t mind CPPM it works well and I’ve never had major problems, but Aruba, come on…

Disk Layouts

Aruba’s CPPM uses a single disk partitioned into two halves to install different major versions. This is so it can boot a previous version in case something catastrophic happens. However, the disk of my initial deployment was too small and needed to be expanded. Even though it’s a virtual appliance I can’t expand the drive and continue. I think it should be using two disks, each with a single partition for easy expandability.

Yes, you should be able to redeploy the appliance easily (cattle, not pets and all that), but it’s not *that* easy, and a virtual hdd expansion should be more than doable.

Licensing

Aruba… why even have the CPPM platform license if the client licenses is what is really needed? It took me more than a month to upgrade a CPPM cluster just because Customer Support could not convey to me, “…open a ticket with, ‘I need to have a license released for a cluster migration.’”

Thanks Aruba /s