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Welcome
- About this guide
- What’s new
Optimization Techniques and Design Fundamentals
- How SteelHeads optimize data
- RiOS data store synchronization
  - RiOS data store synchronization requirements
  - RiOS data store error alarms
- Choosing the right SteelHead model
- Deployment modes for the SteelHead
- Autodiscovery protocol
  - Original autodiscovery process
  - Configuring enhanced autodiscovery
- Autodiscovery and firewall considerations
  - Removal of the Riverbed TCP option probe
  - Stateful firewall device in a multiple in-path environment
- Multiple in-path discovery behavior
- Controlling optimization
- Controlling optimization configuration examples
  - Configuring high-bandwidth, low-latency environment
  - Configuring pass-through transit traffic
- Fixed-target in-path rules
  - Configuring a fixed-target in-path rule for an in-path deployment
  - Fixed-target in-path rule for an out-of-path deployment
- Best practices for SteelHead deployments
Network Integration Tools
- Redundancy and clustering
- Fail-to-wire and fail-to-block
- Overview of link state propagation
- Connection forwarding
- Overview of simplified routing
WAN Visibility Modes
- Overview of WAN visibility
- Correct addressing
- Transparent addressing
- Implications of transparent addressing
- Out-of-band connection
- Configuring WAN visibility modes
Topology
- Introduction to the topology concept
- Defining a network
- Defining a site
  - Configuring the local site
  - Configuring the default site
Application Definitions
- Applications
  - Defining an application
  - Application properties
- Application Flow Engine
  - Overview of the Application Flow Engine
  - AFE and Microsoft Lync 2010 and 2013
- Creating host labels
- Creating port labels
- Creating domain labels
QoS configuration and integration
- Overview of Riverbed QoS
- QoS concepts
- Configuring QoS
- Inbound QoS
  - Introduction to inbound QoS
  - Assigning an inbound QoS profile to a site
- LAN bypass
- QoS for IPv6
- QoS in virtual in-path and out-of-path deployments
- QoS in multiple SteelHead deployments
- QoS and multiple WAN interfaces
- Integrating SteelHeads into existing QoS architectures
- QoS enforcement best practices
- Upgrading to RiOS 9.0
- Guidelines for the maximum number of QoS classes, sites, and rules
QoS Configuration Examples
- Configuring QoS using best practices
- Configuring QoS marking on SteelHeads
- Configuring QoS and MX-TCP
Path Selection
- Overview of path selection
- Path selection implementation
- Configuring path selection
- Valid path selection deployment design examples
- Path selection and virtual in-path deployment
- Design validation
- Design considerations
Physical in-path deployments
- Overview of in-path deployment
- Logical in-path interface
  - In-path IP address selection
  - In-path default gateway and routing
- Failure modes
- Configuring link state propagation
- EtherChannel
- Cabling and duplex
- Physical in-path deployment configuration examples
- In-path redundancy and clustering examples
  - Primary and backup deployments
  - Serial cluster deployments
- Configuring simplified routing
- Multiple WAN router deployments
  - Configuring multiple WAN router deployments without connection forwarding
  - Configuring multiple WAN router deployments with connection forwarding
- 802.1Q trunk deployments
- Layer-2 WAN deployments
  - Layer-2 WANs
  - Broadcast Layer-2 WANs
- VLAN bridging deployments
Virtual In-Path Deployments
- Overview of virtual in-path deployment
- Configuring an in-path, load-balanced, Layer-4 switch deployment
- Configuring flow data exports in virtual in-path deployments
WCCP Virtual In-Path Deployments
- Overview of WCCP
- WCCP fundamentals
- Advantages and disadvantages of WCCP
- Configuring WCCP
- Configuring additional WCCP features
- Flow data in WCCP
- Verifying and troubleshooting WCCP configurations
Policy-Based Routing Virtual In-Path Deployments
- Overview of PBR
  - PBR failover and Cisco Discovery Protocol
  - Alternate PBR failover mechanisms
- Connecting the SteelHead in a PBR deployment
- Configuring PBR
- Exporting flow data and virtual in-path deployments
IPv6
- Overview of IPv6
- In-path rules
- Deployment options
- Protocol support
- Verification and troubleshooting
Packet Mode Optimization
- Overview of packet mode optimization
- Comparison with TCP proxy mode optimization
- Configuring packet mode optimization
- Design considerations
- Best practices for packet mode optimization
Satellite Optimization
- Overview of satellite networks
- Overview of SCPS
- TCP optimization for satellite environments
- Licensing SCPS on a SteelHead
- Configuring satellite optimization features
- Verification and troubleshooting
VPN Routing and Forwarding
- NSV with VRF Select
- VRF-aware WCCP
  - VRF-aware WCCP design examples
  - VRF-aware WCCP best practices
Out-of-Path Deployments
- Overview of out-of-path deployment
- Limitations of out-of-path deployments
- Configuring out-of-path deployments
Data Protection Deployments
- Overview of data protection
- Planning for a data protection deployment
  - LAN-side throughput and data reduction requirements
  - Predeployment questionnaire
- Configuring SteelHeads for data protection
- Common data protection deployments
- Designing for scalability and high availability
  - Overview of N+M architecture
  - Using MX-TCP in N+M deployments
- Enhanced visibility and control for SnapMirror
  - SnapMirror optimization in Cluster Data ONTAP environments
  - SnapMirror optimization in Data ONTAP 7-mode environments
- Troubleshooting and fine-tuning
- Third-party interoperability
Storage Area Network Replication
- Overview of SAN replication
- Storage optimization modules
  - FCIP optimization module
  - SRDF optimization module
- Best practices for SAN replication using TCP/IP
- Best practices for SAN replication using Cisco MDS FCIP
Authentication, Security, Operations, and Monitoring
- Overview of secure transport
- Overview of authentication
- Authentication features
- Configuring SAML
- Configuring a RADIUS server
- Configuring a TACACS+ server
  - Configuring TACACS+ with Cisco Secure Access Control Servers
  - Configuring TACACS+ authentication in the SteelHead
- Securing SteelHeads
- Changing encryption for domain replication passwords
- REST API access
- Capacity planning
  - Model characteristics
  - Admission control
- Overview of exporting flow data
- SNMP monitoring
- Configuring SNMPv3 authentication and privacy
Troubleshooting SteelHead Deployment Problems
- Common deployment issues
- MTU sizing
SteelHead and AppResponse Integration
- Overview of SteelHead and AppResponse integration
- AppResponse and SteelHead deployment scenarios
  - Data center deployment
  - Cloud deployment
Deploying SteelHead-v in OpenStack
- What you need
- Deploying SteelHead-v appliances in OpenStack
  - Deleting an OpenStack instance
- Using a Heat template to deploy SteelHead-v appliances
SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile Deployments
- Overview of SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile deployment
- Multiple Mobile Controller deployments
- Ports used with Mobile Controllers and SteelHead Mobiles
- Interaction between Mobile Controllers and SteelHead Mobile clients
- Location awareness
  - Overview of location awareness
  - Branch warming
- SSL with SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile
- Mobile Controller best practices and other considerations
Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director and SteelHead
- Background and introduction to Intelligent Traffic Director
- Intelligent Traffic Director concepts
- Advantages and disadvantages of ITD
- Configuration of ITD deployments
- Additional design and configuration settings
  - Correct Addressing and Transparency modes
  - IPv4 and IPv6 deployments
- Flow data in ITD deployments
- Verifying and troubleshooting ITD deployments