I am currently preparing that blog post, but I almost just deleted the whole thought. I found the forum posts about the Unifi Elite Controller while searching for any details I could find on running a controller on AWS. Reasons I would consider the Elite Cloud Controller By offering enterprise-quality support to customers using the Elite Cloud Controller Ubiquiti will remove a lot of the variables that customer environments introduce and make supporting Unifi a little easier. I get it, supporting a product is a huge undertaking, I work for a vendor myself. Maybe this explains why my Ubiquiti Unifi Virtual appliance hasn’t received any “official” love or shout outs? With the Unifi Elite controller, you get the same features and functionality as what you can download and run locally, but the main difference is SaaS delivery Ubiquiti handles hosting, support, maintenance, and troubleshooting. You then have to maintain both the Unifi updates as well as the updates to the host operating system yet another task for the enterprise sysadmin. In all of these controller types, the Unifi code is distributed as an application that you install on a host operating system. Windows or Linux virtual or physical machine.You have several ways to run a Unifi Controller, but until now all of your options were self-hosted variants: The heart of the Unifi product line is the Unifi Controller. Let’s take a look at why I think this announcement will bring Ubiquiti Unifi to a much larger market as well as increase its deployment size too. Don’t get me wrong there is already a lot of geeky enterprise features in the offering today, but there is more to enterprise IT than product features. With these new additions, it appears that Ubiquiti is looking to start putting the “enterprise stuff” into their enterprise WiFi solution. The second part is a more enterprise-friendly service and support offering. The first part of the offering, which is in beta now, is a cloud version of their Unifi Controller. Both make a great alternative if the price of the Elite offering doesn’t make sense for you.įrom what I have read in the beta announcements and what I’ve seen by using the beta controller, Unifi Elite looks like it will be a combination of two new offerings. It looks like beta access is public and available to anyone who has a account.Īs an alternative to the Ubiquiti Elite offering, I have an OVA template you can run locally or a how-to on creating a controller on the AWS cloud. Ubiquiti made the announcement mid-December on its community portal here. It looks like I’m a little late to the party regarding Ubiquiti’s latest (beta) announcement around the Unifi series but non-the-less we are going to take a look at what Ubiquiti calls Unifi Elite.
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