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SteelFusion Edge Installation and Configuration Guide
Introducing the SteelFusion Edge Appliance
Hardware and Software Dependencies
vSphere license
- This license is installed into the vSphere instance of the Edge appliance. This license
controls the infrastructure capabilities of the hypervisor, for example: vMotion, evMotion, distributed
resource scheduler (DRS), high availability (HA), fault tolerance (FT). It does not restrict how many
appliances can be connected to vCenter. You can purchase this license and add it to your ESXi instance
in vCenter.
vCenter Server license
- This license is installed onto the vCenter server. There are two levels for this
license: foundation and standard. The foundation license provides management tools for up to three
vSphere hosts. The standard license provides large scale management of VMware vSphere
deployments for up to 1000 vSphere hosts. If you want to manage more than three ESXi hosts, you
must purchase the vCenter Server license.
Riverbed recommends purchasing a vCenter Server license as it enables monitoring and management of
multiple ESX, ESXi, and GSX servers. In addition, the vCenter Server license provides infrastructure
services such as vMotion, evMotion, DRS, HA, and FT.
Changing Your VMware License
If you prefer to use your own VMware license rather than the Riverbed embedded vSphere Hypervisor
license, you can change the VMware license when you run the Hypervisor Installer in the Edge
Management Console.
You can access the Hypervisor Installer either from the Management Console Dashboard or from
Virtualization > Installer: Installer.
For detailed information about changing your VMware license in the Hypervisor Installer, see the
SteelFusion Edge Management Console User’s Guide
.
Firewall Requirements
Riverbed recommends that you deploy the Edge appliance behind your firewall. The ports 7800 and 7810
must be open.
SNMP-Based Management Compatibility
The Edge appliance supports a proprietary Riverbed MIB accessible through SNMP. SNMPv1 (RFCs 1155,
1157, 1212, and 1215), SNMPv2c (RFCs 1901, 2578, 2579, 2580, 3416, 3417, and 3418), and SNMPv3 are
supported, although some MIB items might be accessible only through SNMPv3 and SNMPv2.
SNMP support allows the Edge to be integrated into network management systems such as Hewlett
Packard OpenView Network Node Manager, BMC Patrol, and other SNMP-based network management
tools.
Ethernet Network Compatibility
The Edge appliance supports these networking standards. An Edge appliance with a Gigabit Ethernet card
supports jumbo frames on in-path and primary ports.
Ethernet Standard
IEEE Standard
Ethernet Logical Link Control (LLC)
IEEE 802.2 - 1998
Fast Ethernet 100BASE-TX
IEEE 802.3 - 2008
