•  Welcome
  • About product terminology
  • About document conventions
  • About ethernet network compatibility
  • About SNMP-based management compatibility
  • About documentation and release notes
  • Contacting Riverbed
•  Riverbed Software Licenses, Upgrades, and Image Signing
  • Riverbed licensing methods
  • About automatic licensing
  • About the Riverbed Licensing Portal
  • Installing licenses using the Management Console
  • Installing licenses using the CLI
  • Software upgrades and image signing
  • About software image signing certificates
  • Importing image signing certificates
  • About software upgrades
  • Using an image located on the network
  • Using an image located on the Riverbed Support site
  • Using an image located on the local system
  • Switching to the backup software version
  • Restarting and shutting down the appliance
•  About SteelHead (Virtual Edition)
  •  Product dependencies and compatibility
    • SCC compatibility
  • Understanding SteelHead-v
  •  SteelHead-v optimization
    • Configuring optimization
  •  SteelHead-v deployment guidelines
    • Network configuration
    • Network performance
  •  Deployment options
    • In-path deployment
    • Virtual in-path deployment
    • Out-of-path deployment
  •  SteelHead-v models and performance tiers
    • Flexible RiOS data store
    • Multiple RiOS data stores
  •  NICs for SteelHead-v
    • Requirements for SteelHead-v deployment with a NIC (ESXi only)
  • SteelHead-v on the Cisco SRE
•  Installing SteelHead-v on VMware ESXi
  • Basic steps for installing SteelHead-v on ESXi
  • Obtaining the SteelHead-v for ESXi software package
  • Installing SteelHead-v with a Riverbed NIC
  • Completing the preconfiguration checklist
  • Installing SteelHead-v on an ESXi virtual machine
  • Specifying virtual switch settings for in-path deployments
•  Installing SteelHead-v on Microsoft Hyper‑V
  • Basic steps for installing SteelHead-v on Hyper-V
  • Obtaining the SteelHead-v for Hyper-V software package
  •  Completing the preinstallation checklist
    • Configuring virtual switch interfaces for VLAN-tagged and non-VLAN-tagged networks
  • Installing SteelHead-v on a Hyper-V virtual machine
  •  Troubleshooting Hyper-V installations
    • Manually installing SteelHead-v on the Hyper‑V Manager
•  Installing SteelHead-v on Linux KVM
  • Basic steps for setting up a SteelHead-v for KVM
  • Prerequisites for installing SteelHead-v on KVM
  • Obtaining the SteelHead-v for KVM software package
  • Installing SteelHead-v on a KVM
  •  Performance tuning
    • Domain process CPU pinning
    • Disk I/O thread allocation and pinning
    • Distributing disk I/O load evenly across data store disks
    • Pinning virtual CPUs to physical CPUs
    • Separating the RiOS data store and management disks
    • Setting disk cache mode to none
  • Example SteelHead-v specification file
•  Installing SteelHead-v on Cisco ENCS
  • Basic steps for deploying SteelHead-v on Cisco ENCS
  • Prerequisites for deploying SteelHead-v on ENCS
  • Obtaining the SteelHead-v for ENCS software package
  •  Preparing your SteelHead-v image for NFVIS
    • Preparing SteelHead-v images using scripts
    • Preparing SteelHead-v images without using scripts
  • Uploading the SteelHead-v image to the NFVIS image repository
  • Importing, packaging, and registering the SteelHead-v image on NFVIS
  • Deploying SteelHead-v on the Cisco 5100 series ENCS
  • Verifying the deployment
•  Installing SteelHead-v on Nutanix AHV
  • Obtaining the SteelHead-v software package
  • Uploading the package to Nutanix AHV
  • Creating the Nutanix virtual machine
  • Performing initial configuration
  • Configuring SteelHead-v through the Management Console
•  Deploying SteelHead-v
  • Setting up your SteelHead-v
  • Configuring SteelHead-v for the first time
  • Logging in to the SteelHead-v Management Console
  • Licensing for Next Generation (VCX10-110) models
  •  Upgrading and downgrading Next Generation (VCX10-110) models
    • Model upgrade overview
    • Model upgrade and flexible RiOS data store
    • Upgrading a model that requires no additional virtual hardware
    • Upgrading a model that requires additional virtual hardware
    • Downgrading limitations
    • Removing a license
  • Upgrading RiOS software
  • Rebooting and shutting down SteelHead-v
  • Verifying your connections
  • Verifying your configuration
  • Verifying hardware capabilities of virtual appliances
•  SteelHead-v Provisioning
  • SteelHead-v provisioning overview
  • Supported configuration parameters
  • Creating the directory structure
  • Creating the configuration file
  • Creating and attaching the configuration ISO file
•  Using Discovery Agent
  • Overview of the Discovery Agent
  • Discovery agent requirements
  • Installing the Discovery Agent on a Windows server
  • Installing the Discovery Agent on a Linux server
  •  Configuring the Discovery Agent
    • Configuring the Discovery Agent on a Linux server
    • Configuring the Discovery Agent on Windows
  • Configuring transparency modes
  • Enabling optimization using the Discovery Agent
•  SteelHead-v and SR-IOV
  • SR-IOV requirements
  • Configuring the host system
  • Configuring the virtual machine guest system
•  Troubleshooting SteelHead-v
  •  Duplex mismatch
    • Possible cause
    • Solutions
  •  Oplock issues
    • Possible causes
    • Solutions
  •  CIFS overlapping open optimization denies multiuser access
    • Solution
  •  IP address configuration
    • Solutions
  •  Asymmetric routing
    • Possible cause
    • Solutions
  •  Packet ricochet
    • Possible cause
    • Solutions
  •  Packet ricochet—ICMP redirects
    • Possible causes
    • Solutions
  • Simplified routing
  •  Autodiscovery failure
    • Possible causes
    • Solutions
  •  Protocol optimization errors
    • Solutions
  • Resetting a lost password
  • Bypass NIC log messages

SteelHead™ (Virtual Edition) Installation Guide

Troubleshooting SteelHead-v