Welcome
Welcome to the Alluvio Portal (Virtual Edition) Installation Guide. This guide describes how to deploy Portal-v on a VMware ESXi host, in Microsoft Azure, and in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Portal-v integrates data from Riverbed’s industry-leading Alluvio and SteelHead solutions to create a centralized, dynamic view of an enterprise’s application performance environment. This holistic view gives operational teams a single source of truth (SSOT) for application performance, accelerating, troubleshooting, and providing meaningful data for stakeholders throughout the enterprise. Ultimately, IT is able to efficiently control and optimize applications, data, and traffic across the entire hybrid network, keeping key resources focused on strategic projects.
About product terminology
Here’s a description of product names and related terms with their abbreviations. You’ll need to know these terms as you read this guide.
Term | Abbreviation | Meaning |
Portal Portal (Virtual Edition) | — Portal-v | The physical or virtual appliance that provides a plain view of application performance based on data pulled from Alluvio solutions. |
About document conventions
This guide uses this standard set of typographical conventions:
Convention | Meaning |
italics | Within text, new terms and emphasized words appear in italic typeface. |
boldface | Within text, CLI commands, CLI parameters, and REST API properties appear in bold typeface. |
Monospace | Code examples appear in monospace font: amnesiac > enable amnesiac # configure terminal |
< > | Values that you specify appear in angle brackets: interface <ip-address> |
[ ] | Optional keywords or variables appear in square brackets: ntp peer <ip-address> [version <number>] |
{ } | Elements that are part of a required choice appear in braces: {<interface-name> | ascii <string> | hex <string>} |
| | The pipe symbol separates alternative, mutually exclusive elements of a choice. The pipe symbol is used in conjunction with braces or brackets; the braces or brackets group the choices and identify them as required or optional: {delete <filename> | upload <filename>} |
About documentation and release notes
You can find the most current version of all Riverbed documentation on the Support site at
https://support.riverbed.com.
See the Knowledge Base for any known issues, how-to documents, system requirements, and common error messages. You can browse titles or search for keywords and strings. To access the Knowledge Base, log in to the Support site at
https://support.riverbed.com.
Each software release includes release notes. The release notes list new features, known issues, and fixed problems. To obtain the most current version of the release notes, go to the Software and Documentation section of the Support site at
https://support.riverbed.com. Examine the release notes before you begin the installation and configuration process.
Contacting Riverbed
This section describes how to contact departments within Riverbed. For some products, you might need to provide your Support ID. You can find this on the Help page of your product’s Management Console.
• Documentation—Have suggestions about Riverbed’s online documentation or printed materials? Send comments to
techpubs@riverbed.com.