
112 | Installing NICs for SteelHead Virtual Edition Appliances
Configuring bypass cards for KVM
In this stage, you add the PCI devices to the VM.
14. Click
Add
. The Add Hardware dialog box appears.
15. Select PCI Device and click
Next
.
16. From the Connection menu, choose the PCI device and click
Finish
.
17. Repeat steps 14 to 16 to add each direct path NIC.
If you are installing a 10-G fiber card, you also need to add the Broadcom Controller as a PCI
device.
18. Power on the virtual machine. For DirectPath interfaces, speed and duplex values appear in the
interface for LAN and WAN.
To verify NIC installation in the ESXi 5.x host
1. From the SteelHead-v CLI, enter the
show interface
command.
2. In the DirectPath In-Path Interfaces section, confirm the HW Blockable setting is
yes
.
3. Confirm the Traffic Status is Normal, Bypass, or Disconnect.
4. If the HW Blockable value is
no
, enter
show hardware all
and ensure that the card is one of the cards
listed below:
2 Port Copper GigE PCI-E Network Bypass Card, 410-00043-01
4 Port Copper GigE PCI-E Network Bypass Card, 410-00044-01
Two-Port SR Multimode Fiber 10 Gigabit Ethernet Card (Second Generation), 410-00302-02
For details on configuring NICs in the SteelHead-v, see the
SteelHead (Virtual Edition) Installation Guide
.
Configuring bypass cards for KVM
Complete this procedure to configure a bypass card for SteelHead-v appliances running KVM.
Before you begin
Before you start installation, download the SteelHead-v installation files and host driver files that are
specific to the KVM installation from the Riverbed support site at
To configure a NIC bypass card in KVM
1. Enable input-output management unit (IOMMU) mapping on the host machine. The method of
enabling IOMMU depends on the type of Linux host and memory chip that is used in the host
machine. To enable IOMMU on an Ubuntu host using an Intel card, update the following line in the
GRUB file, adding or changing the intel_iommu parameter:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=off intel_iommu=on "
2. Download the SteelHead-v installation files, including all the required NIC drivers, from the Riverbed
support site at
.
3. Install the KVM image by following the steps in the
SteelHead (Virtual Edition) Installation Guide
.