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The Riverbed QoS system is based on a patented version of Hierarchical Fair Service Curves
(HFSC). HFSC allows bandwidth allocation for multiple application of varying sensitivity
elimination issues of jitter and starvation caused by other QoS techniques. This allows
Riverbed to deliver low latency to traffic without wasting bandwidth and deliver high
bandwidth to delay-insensitive traffic without disrupting delay-sensitive traffic.
The traffic for RiOS data store synchronization is transferred through either the Steelhead
appliance
primary or auxiliary network interfaces, not the in-path interfaces.
You can always restart the configuration wizard and change your answers by entering
configuration jump-start
Design Fundamentals
The causes for slow throughput in WANs are well known: high delay (round-trip time or
latency), limited bandwidth, and chatty application protocols.
RiOS is the software that powers the Steelhead appliance and Steelhead Mobile. With RiOS,
you can solve a range of problems affecting WANs and application performance, including:
Data Streamlining
Transport Streamlining
Application Streamlining
Management Streamlining
All Steelhead appliance models have the following specifications that are used to determine
the amount of traffic that a single Steelhead appliance can optimize:
WAN bandwidth rating Each Steelhead appliance model has a limit on the
rate at which it pushes optimized data towards the WAN. This limit does not
apply to pass-through traffic.
Datastore size Each Steelhead appliance model has a fixed amount of disk
space available for RiOS SDR. For the best optimization possible, the
Steelhead appliance datastore must be large enough to hold all of the
commonly accessed data at a site.
RiOS v6.0 and later offer the following options for configuring WAN visibility modes:
Steelhead Appliance
In-Path rules In-path rules determine the action a Steelhead appliance takes when a
connection is initiated, usually by a client.
Auto Use the auto-discovery process to determine if a remote Steelhead
appliance is able to optimize the connection attempting to be created by this
SYN packet.
Deny Drop the SYN packet and send a message back to its source.
Peering rules Peering rules determine how a Steelhead appliance reacts when it sees a
probe query.
Pass The receiving Steelhead appliance does not respond to the probing
Steelhead appliance, and allows the SYN+ probe packet to continue through
the network.
Support for more services and types of services, including in-band packages
located in-line with optimization such as the Universal Threat Management
(UTM) security services, proxy solutions such as video or network monitoring
services, and improved support for out-of-band packages such as Windows
Active Directory, DNS and DHCP management software, and print services.
You can perform high availability (HA) data synchronization only between Steelhead
appliances of the same model. RSP HA is only supported on Steelhead appliance models x50
and xx50.
Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) rules are used for in-path proxy-based
solutions. You can add only DNAT rules for virtual in-path optimization VNIs.
Interceptor Appliance
The Interceptor is an in-path clustering solution used to provide virtual in-path clustering and
load balancing for Steelhead appliances that are physically deployed out of path.
Prior to Interceptor v3.0, the IC9350 supports up to 12 Gbps of total system throughput.
Interceptor v3.0 introduces a software-packet-processing enhancement feature called Xbridge.
Xbridge, when using 10 Gbps interfaces, provides up to 40 Gbps of total throughput: 20 Gbps
inbound and 20 Gbps outbound (enable Xbridge with the CLI command xbridge enable).
Pass-through traffic that is hardware-assisted (using the 10 Gbps interface network cards)
does not count towards this total. The IC9350 supports clusters up to 25 Steelheads, and can
redirect 1,000,000 simultaneous TCP connections.
The CMC uses appliance policies and appliance groups to facilitate centralized configuration
and reporting of remote Steelhead appliances.
Although an individual Steelhead appliance may be a member of only one group at any time,
groups are hierarchicalan appliance may inherit settings from a parent group.
System Settings Policy Use system settings policies to organize and manage
system setting features such as alarms, announcements, email notifications, log
settings, and others.
Mobile Client
Steelhead Appliance
When you start the Mobile Client, it accesses the specified Mobile Controller to obtain a
license and a policy.
The endpoint client maintains a connection with the Mobile Controller to allow new policies
and updates to be downloaded from the Mobile Controller. This also enables the Mobile
Controller to monitor your endpoint clients and to upload logs from them.
License Consumption
A branch Mobile Client v2.0 connecting to a v2.0 or later Steelhead Mobile Controller does
not consume a license.
Branch clients have mobile service enabled but the client detected a local Steelhead appliance
using Location Awareness. The branch clients will use the local Steelhead for optimization
instead of using a Steelhead Mobile license.
The Mobile Controller facilitates the following administration tasks for your Mobile Clients:
Policies
Policies are sets of common configuration options that can be shared among different
Steelhead appliances and Steelhead Mobile Clients independently or through group
membership. A policy can be specific to a single Steelhead appliance or Steelhead Mobile
Client, or it can represent settings for all of the Mobile Clients and Steelhead appliances in
your enterprise environment.