Using the Riverbed Cloud Portal : Managing licenses : Deploying an appliance in AWS
  
Deploying an appliance in AWS
This section describes how to deploy a SteelHead-c virtual appliance to AWS by using the Riverbed Cloud Portal. You can also manually deploy a SteelHead-c to AWS. See Manually Provisioning a SteelHead-c for AWS.
Note: Manual deployment is the only supported deployment method for AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS in China regions.
When you provision a license to AWS, the portal automatically creates a licensed SteelHead-c virtual appliance hosted on a virtual machine in the AWS cloud service.
Prerequisite: Ensure that you have an AWS account and know your AWS login credentials.
To provision a SteelHead-c to AWS
1. Log in to the portal and select the Cloud Appliances tab.
2. Select Licenses.
3. Select an unused license.
4. In the License Details page, select the Details tab.
5. Click Provision to AWS. The Launch SteelHead-c dialog box is displayed.
6. Complete the configuration as described in this table.
Item
Description
Appliance Name
Enter a display name for the appliance.
Description
Enter a description for the appliance.
Version
Select a RiOS software version from the drop-down list.
Optimization Group
Select an optimization group in which to add the appliance.
Region
Select the geographic region closest to you from the drop-down list.
Availability Zone
Select a geographic zone from the drop-down list. For example, for the Amazon US East cloud, you can choose us-east-1a, us-east-1b, us-east-1c, or us-east-1d.
A zone is a physical data center site managed by Amazon that provides standby computing power to its assigned regions. Appliances communicate through IP addresses, and there are no traffic restrictions between zones (or costs for data passing between zones).
VPC Subnet
Select a subnet for the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) IP address from the drop-down menu. Subnets are segments of a VPC's IP address space. The subnets enable you to separate the isolated resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances) in the VPC based on security and operational requirements. If you create more than one subnet in a VPC, they are attached to each other by a logical router, in a star topology.
If you do not select a subnet, the system provisions the appliance in the public AWS cloud.
Elastic IP Address
Select an elastic IP address from the drop-down list. Elastic IP addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing. An elastic IP address is associated with your account, not a particular instance, and you control that address until you choose to explicitly release it. The portal allows you to associate an elastic IP address with your SteelHead-c. If you choose to assign an elastic IP address to a SteelHead-c, it means that every time the SteelHead-c is started it will have the same IP address.
Key Pair
Select an SSH key pair in your Amazon account for the appliance.
Note: You must select a Key Pair or specify an Admin Password or do both.
Admin Password
Specify a password for the SteelHead-c administrator. The username is admin.
Confirm Admin Password
Confirm the administrator password entered in the previous field.
Network Access
Select the check box Allow network access from my location to enable other SteelHeads and computers at your location to access the appliance.
7. Click Launch to provision the SteelHead-c.
The system creates a SteelHead-c in AWS and applies the license to it. After the provisioning process is complete, the SteelHead-c automatically restarts and the portal displays the Appliance Summary page.