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. |