96 | Installing NICs for SteelHead Virtual Edition Appliances
Supported NICs for SteelHead-v
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Two SteelHead-v guests, each using one physical pair on a single four-port Riverbed NIC
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Two SteelHead-v guests connecting to separate cards
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One SteelHead-v guest connecting to bypass pairs on different NICs
Make sure you follow proper ESD procedures when you handle the NIC:
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Wear properly grounded ESD straps.
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If an ESD strap isn’t available, touch a properly grounded metallic surface prior to handling the NIC.
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Don’t touch the electronic components on the NIC.
Supported NICs for SteelHead-v
This section describes the software requirements and NIC cards that support SteelHead-v.
All the NICs for SteelHead-v support fail-to-block mode. For more information, see
For details on configuring VMware ESXi and NIC requirements for SteelHead-v, see the
SteelHead
(Virtual Edition) Installation Guide
.
Software compatibility
SteelHead-v NICs have the following software requirements:
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SteelHead-v xx50 appliances require RiOS 7.0.2 or later.
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SteelHead-v CX555, CX755, and CX1555 appliances require RiOS 8.0 or later.
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SteelHead-v CX5055 and CX7055 appliances require RiOS 8.6 or later.
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VMware ESXi 5.0 requires RiOS 8.0.3 or later.
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Microsoft Hyper-V requires RiOS 9.7 or later.
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Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) requires RiOS 9.2 or later.
Supported cards
The following table summarizes the NICs compatible with SteelHead-v appliance.You can install a four-
port card in an ESXi host for a SteelHead-v 150, 250, or 550; however, only one port pair will be available
because the SteelHead-v model type determines the number of pairs.
NICs for SteelHead (virtual edition)
Manufacturing
part #
Orderable part #
Virtual
appliances
Two-Port TX Copper GbE card
410-00043-01
NIC-001-2TX
150, 250, 550,
555
Four-Port TX Copper GbE card
410-00044-01
NIC-002-4TX
555, 755, 1555,
5055, 7055
Two-Port SR Multimode Fiber 10 GbE card (second
generation)
410-00302-02
NIC-008-2SR
5055, 7055
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