SteelHead™ Deployment Guide - Protocols : Preface : About This Guide
  
About This Guide
The SteelHead Deployment Guide - Protocols describes why and how to configure Riverbed appliances with common protocols.
Riverbed product names have changed. At the time of publication, the user interfaces of the products described in this guide may have not changed, and the original names may be used in the text. For the product naming key, go to http://www.riverbed.com/products/#Product_List.
This guide includes information relevant to the following products:
  • Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS)
  • Riverbed SteelHead (SteelHead)
  • Riverbed SteelHead CX (SteelHead CX)
  • Riverbed SteelHead EX (SteelHead EX)
  • Riverbed SteelHead DX (SteelHead DX)
  • Riverbed SteelHead (virtual edition) (SteelHead-v)
  • Riverbed SteelHead (in the cloud) (SteelHead-c)
  • Riverbed SteelHead SaaS (SteelHead SaaS)
  • Riverbed SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead (Controller or SCC)
  • Riverbed SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead (virtual edition) (Controller-v or Controller-v)
  • Riverbed SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile software (SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile)
  • Riverbed SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile appliance (Mobile Controller)
  • Riverbed Mobile Controller (virtual edition) (Mobile Controller-v)
  • Riverbed SteelHead Mobile (SteelHead Mobile)
  • Riverbed SteelHead Interceptor (Interceptor)
  • Riverbed Virtual Services Platform (VSP)
  • Riverbed Services Platform (RSP)
  • Audience
    This guide is written for storage and network administrators familiar with administering and managing WANs. You must be familiar with TCP, CIFS, Citrix, HTTP, Lotus Notes, MAPI, NFS, FTP, and SSL.
    You must also be familiar with:
  • the Management Console. For details, see the SteelHead Management Console User’s Guide.
  • connecting to the RiOS CLI. For details, see the Riverbed Command-Line Interface Reference Manual.
  • the installation and configuration process for the SteelHead. For details, see the SteelHead Installation and Configuration Guide and the SteelHead (Virtual Edition) Installation Guide.
  • the Interceptor. For details, see the SteelHead Interceptor User’s Guide.
  • the SCC. For details, see the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead User’s Guide.
  • the Mobile Controller. For details, see the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile User’s Guide.
  • Types of SteelHeads
    The SteelHead product line includes several types of devices. Most of the information in the SteelHead Deployment Guide applies to the following appliances:
  • SteelHead (xx50) - includes WAN optimization and Proxy File Service (PFS). RSP is available with an additional license. For details, see the SteelHead Management Console User’s Guide for SteelHead (xx50).
  • SteelHead CX (xx55) - is a WAN optimization-only device. Desktop models have two in-path interfaces. For details, see the SteelHead Management Console User’s Guide for SteelHead CX (xx55).
  • SteelHead EX (xx60) - includes WAN optimization and VSP. The Riverbed Granite product family, which provides branch storage services, is available with an additional license. For details, see the SteelHead Management Console User’s Guide for SteelHead EX (xx60).
  • SteelHead DX - addresses the demands of disaster recovery and data protection over WANs for data center-to-data center, with up to 60-times acceleration of data replication workloads. For details, see the SteelHead Management Console User’s Guide for Steelhead DX.
  • SteelHead-v - is a virtualized version of the SteelHead that runs under VMware ESX/ESXi and the Cisco Services-Ready Engine (SRE) platform. For details, see the SteelHead (Virtual Edition) Installation Guide.
  • SteelHead-c and SteelHead SaaS- are the SteelHeads for public cloud computing environments. You deploy the SteelHead-c and SteelHead SaaS differently from the SteelHead and the SteelHead-v. For details, see the SteelHead Cloud Services User’s Guide and the SteelHead SaaS User’s Guide.
  • SteelHead Mobile - optimizes network traffic from remote users who are accessing the enterprise network using any type of remote access (dial-up, broadband, wireless, and so on). For details, see the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile User’s Guide.
  • Mobile Controller - provides management functionality for SteelHead Mobiles. For details, see the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile User’s Guide.
  • SCC - provides management functionality for various Riverbed products, including SteelHeads, Mobile Controllers, and SteelHead Interceptors. For details, see the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead User’s Guide.
  • For more information about the SteelHead family, go to http://www.riverbed.com/us/products/steelhead_appliance/.
    Document Conventions
    This guide uses the following standard set of typographical conventions.
     
    Convention
    Meaning
    italics
    Within text, new terms and emphasized words appear in italic typeface.
    boldface
    Within text, CLI commands, CLI parameters, and REST API properties appear in bold typeface.
    Courier
    Code examples appear in Courier font:
    amnesiac > enable
    amnesiac # configure terminal
    < >
    Values that you specify appear in angle brackets: interface <ip-address>
    [ ]
    Optional keywords or variables appear in brackets: ntp peer <ip-address> [version <number>]
    { }
    Elements that are part of a required choice appear in braces: {<interface-name> | ascii <string> | hex <string>}
    |
    The pipe symbol separates alternative, mutually exclusive elements of a choice. The pipe symbol is used in conjunction with braces or brackets; the braces or brackets group the choices and identify them as required or optional: {delete <filename> | upload <filename>}