Configuring the Riverbed bypass card

Now that you have installed ESXi and the Edge, you configure the bypass card in order to make it available to the Edge. If your server hardware does not have a Riverbed bypass card, skip this procedure.

If you are configuring the 10-G fiber card, select the Broadcom Network Controller as a pass-through device. The Broadcom Controller may appear as Unknown Controller. You’ll also need to add the Broadcom Controller as a PCI device.

1. Disconnect the target appliance from the installation network and connect it to the management network.

2. Power on the appliance.

3. Using vSphere on any desktop on the management network, connect to the target appliance.

4. Right-click the Edge and choose Power Off.

5. Start the vSphere client.

6. In the login window, type the IP address in the IP Address / Name field.

7. You can obtain the IP address from the console of the server hardware.

8. For the username, log in as root.

9. For the password, type pa55w0rd!! and click Login. The vSphere client opens and displays information about the host.

10. In the Inventory panel, select the host for the Edge.

11. In the Configuration tab, select Advanced Settings.

12. Click Configure Passthrough to display the Mark devices for passthrough window.

13. Select all the NICs corresponding to the Riverbed NIC from the list of available direct path devices. The NICs are identified as Intel 82580 Gigabit Network Connections. If a NIC is currently in use, vSphere displays a dialog box prompting you to confirm making this NIC a pass-through device.

14. Click OK. The NICs are displayed in the DirectPath I/O Configuration page as available for direct access by the virtual machines on the host.

15. Choose Inventory > Host: Reboot to reboot the host and apply the changes.

16. Ensure that the pass-through devices are appearing correctly. In the Inventory panel, select the host from the Configuration tab and select Advanced Settings.

17. Ensure that the devices are correctly configured. A green icon indicates that the device was correctly configured.

18. Log in to the Edge. The Configuration Jump Start wizard appears.

19. Responed no to auto-configure using a SCC and using the wizard for initial configuration.

20. Enter the reset factory command to shut down the Edge.

21. Open the virtual machine settings for editing, and add a PCI device.

22. Select the first PCI device listed in the menu. Repeat until all listed devices are added.