Riverbed Cloud Services : Riverbed Cloud Services system components
  
Riverbed Cloud Services system components
This section provides an overview of the Riverbed cloud services system and its components. Figure: Riverbed cloud services shows an overview of Riverbed cloud services.
Figure: Riverbed cloud services
The Riverbed cloud services system consists of these components:
•  Riverbed Cloud Portal - A web portal hosted and managed by Riverbed. The Riverbed Cloud Portal manages licensing, deployment, and discovery of your SteelHead-c virtual appliances. For details, see Using the Riverbed Cloud Portal.
•  SteelHead-c - Software form factor of SteelHead CX that is purpose-built for compatibility with a variety of IaaS vendors.
•  Discovery Agent - Software that can be installed in the cloud where your optimized applications are hosted. The Discovery Agent assists client-side SteelHead appliances in locating peer SteelHead-c virtual appliances on the server side. It also provides failure detection and load balancing. For details, see Using the Discovery Agent.
Note: The Riverbed Cloud Portal uses elastic scaling technology. As a result, the portal is not always served from a static IP address. Ensure that all appliances that you want to communicate with the Riverbed Cloud Portal are configured to use DNS and hostnames for the portal.