About the Edge virtual machine
The Edge VM incorporates SteelHead features to provide WAN optimization. All features available with Edge are available on the Edge appliance. You manage the storage and networking components using the Edge Management Console, and you use VMware vSphere client or vCenter to interact with the hosted VMs. The Edge VM provides BlockStream iSCSI storage for the hypervisor datastores. You can configure the space allotted to the BlockStream iSCSI storage through vSphere.
Networking interfaces
The Edge hardware platform includes:
• Management interfaces—Management network ports for RiOS are provided using the primary (PRI) and auxiliary (AUX) interfaces.
• SteelHead bypass interfaces—SteelHead bypass ports are provided through a preinstalled NIC (LANX_Y, WANX_Y).
• Storage interfaces—Storage ports for external iSCSI or high-availability connections for are provided via the storage ports (eth0_0, eth0_1).