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Welcome
Welcome to the
Network and Storage Card Installation Guide
. This guide describes how to install,
replace, and configure network interface cards (NICs). This guide is written for storage and network
administrators managing networks with Riverbed products.
This guide includes NIC information relevant to the following products:
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SteelHead (GX, CX, DX, EX, Virtual)
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SteelHead SD
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SteelHead Interceptor
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SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead
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SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile
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SteelCentral AppResponse
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SteelCentral Flow Gateway
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SteelCentral NetExpress
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SteelCentral NetProfiler
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SteelCentral NetShark
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SteelFusion Core
NIC naming conventions
Network interface cards described in this guide use the following abbreviations to indicate the type of
card:
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TX = Copper, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
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LX = Single Mode Fiber, Gigabit Ethernet
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SX = Multimode Fiber, Gigabit Ethernet
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LR = Single Mode Fiber, 10-Gigabit Ethernet
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SR = Multimode Fiber, 10-Gigabit Ethernet
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SFP = Small Form-Factor Pluggable, 1-Gigabit Ethernet, 10-Gigabit Ethernet