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