Enables branch warming for SteelHead Mobile Clients. By default, branch warming is enabled.

Branch warming keeps track of data segments created while a SteelHead Mobile product family user is in a SteelHead-enabled branch office and trickles the new data back to the SteelHead Mobile product family laptop. When the user goes back on the road, they receive warm performance.

Branch warming cooperates with and optimizes transfers for a server-side SteelHead. New data transfers between the client and server are populated in the SteelHead Mobile product family data store, the branch SteelHead data store, and the server-side SteelHead data store.

When the server downloads data, the server-side SteelHead checks if either the SteelHead Mobile or the branch SteelHead has the data in their data store. If either device already has the data segments, the server-side SteelHead sends only references to the data. The SteelHead Mobile and the branch SteelHead communicate with each other to resolve the references.

Other clients at a branch office benefit from branch warming as well, because data transferred by one client at a branch also populates the branch SteelHead data store. Performance improves with all clients at the branch because they receive warm performance for that data.

The SteelHead Mobile Client must be running v2.1 or later.

Branch Warming does not improve performance for configurations using:

SteelHead Mobile Clients which communicate with multiple server-side appliances in different scenarios. For example, if a SteelHead Mobile Client home user peers with one server-side SteelHead after logging in through a VPN network and peers with a different server-side SteelHead after logging in from the branch office, branch warming does not improve performance.

The no command option disables branch warming.

SteelHead CX, SteelHead EX, SteelHead-v, SteelHead-c