Deployment Best Practices

Every deployment of the SteelFusion product family differs due to variations in specific customer needs and types and sizes of IT infrastructure.

The following recommendations and best practices are intended to guide you to achieving optimal performance while reducing configuration and maintenance requirements. However, these guidelines are general; for detailed worksheets for proper sizing, contact your Riverbed account team.

This chapter includes the following sections:

Storage Edge Best Practices

Core Best Practices

iSCSI Initiators Timeouts

Operating System Patching