Control | Description |
Enable CIFS Prepopulation | Prewarms the RiOS data store. In this setup, the primary interface of the SteelHead acts as a client and prerequests data from the share you want to use to warm the data store. This request goes through the LAN interface to the WAN interface out to the server-side SteelHead, causing the in-path interface to see the data as a normal client request. When data is requested again by a client on the local LAN, RiOS sends only new or modified data over the WAN, dramatically increasing the rate of data transfers. |
Enable Transparent Prepopulation Support using RCU | Opens port 8777 to allow manual warming of the RiOS data store using the Riverbed Copy Utility (RCU) to prepopulate your shares. Most environments do not need to enable RCU. |
Add a New Prepopulation Share | Displays the controls for adding a new prepopulation CIFS share. |
Remote Path | Specify the path to the data on the origin server or the UNC path of a share to which you want to make available for prepopulation. Set up the prepopulation share on the remote box pointing to the actual share in the head-end data center server. For example: \\<origin file server>\<local name> Note: The share and the origin-server share names cannot contain any of these characters: < > * ? | / + = ; : " , & [] |
Account | Specify the account number on the CIFS share. Specify the account used to access the prepopulation share: for example: <Domain>\<username> |
Password | Set the password for accessing the CIFS share. |
Password Confirm | Confirm the password. |
Synchronization Enable | Enable the following synchronization options: • Sync Schedule Date, Time - Sets date (YYYY/MM/DD) and time (HH:MM:SS) for synchronizing the appliance with the server. • Sync Interval - Set number and select Minutes, Hours, Days, or Disabled from the drop-down list. |
Comment | Optionally, include a comment that describes the share configuration. |
Add | Adds the new CIFS share configuration to the policy definition. |
Remove Selected | Select the check box next to the name of the CIFS share configuration and click Remove Selected. |