Upgrading and downgrading VCX30 through VCX110 models
You can switch among models from the Licenses page in the Management Console. Before you change models, ensure that you have purchased licenses appropriate to the model and functionality you want to use and that the appliance can connect to the Riverbed Licensing Portal.
You must stop services before you change to a different model.
All models are listed under the Appliance Specifications section. Only those models with specifications supported by your currently installed licenses and your underlying virtual machine hardware are selectable. By default, your SteelHead-v runs the highest capacity hardware specification that your license and underlying virtual machine hardware configuration allows.
If you require a model that is not selectable, ensure that you purchase a license for that model and that the underlying virtual machine hardware is sufficient to run that model’s hardware specification.
If you need to change the hardware configuration of the underlying virtual machine, ensure that you stop the acceleration service by using the no service enable command. After reconfiguring the hardware, activate the correct licensed capabilities by using the hardware spec activate <model-name> command, and then restart the SteelHead-v.
If you attach a new data store disk, you must run the restart service clean command.
Model downgrades based on the performance tier are not supported through the Management Console web interface; you must use the CLI to downgrade the performance tier. For details, see
Downgrade limitations.
To choose a different model and automatically license it, log in to your SteelHead-v and display the Management Console. Choose Administration > Maintenance: Licenses to display the Licenses page.
Click Stop Services. In the Appliance Specifications section, choose an available model. Click Update.
New licenses are fetched from the Riverbed Licensing Portal and applied. Old licenses are removed. Click Restart Services.
To choose a different model and manually license it, log in to your SteelHead-v and display the Management Console. Choose Administration > Maintenance: Licenses to display the Licenses page.
Remove the current license, and add the new license. Click Stop Services.
Reconfigure the virtual machine hardware to at least the minimum required resources for the model you want to run. Click Restart Services.
The SteelHead-v should operate with the capabilities of the new license. If the SteelHead-v does not reflect the capabilities of the new license, open a command prompt and issue these commands:
no service enable
hardware spec activate <model-name>