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Installing NICs for SteelHead Virtual Edition Appliances | 97
Identifying interface names in SteelHead-v
The following cards are supported on SteelHead-v VCX10 through VCX110running ESXi/ESX, Hyper-V or
KVM:
You must use Riverbed NICs for fail-to-wire or fail-to-block with SteelHead-v. NIC cards without a
bypass feature from other vendors are supported for functionality other than fail-to-wire and fail-to-
block, if supported by the hypervisor.
Identifying interface names in SteelHead-v
The interface names for the NICs in the SteelHead Management Console and the CLI are a combination
of the slot number and the port pairs (lan<slot>_<pair>, wan<slot>_<pair>). For example, if a four-port
NIC is located in slot 0 of your appliance, the interface names are lan0_0, wan0_0, lan0_1, and wan0_1
respectively.
The SteelHead-v model determines the maximum number of hardware bypass pairs.
V150, V250, and V550 appliances support one bypass pair (one LAN and one WAN port).
VCX555, VCX755, VCX1555, VCX5055, and VCX7055 appliances support two bypass pairs (two LAN and
two WAN ports).
Configuring bypass cards in ESXi 5.x
This section describes how to configure NICs in ESXi 5.x hosts to provide bypass support using VMware
DirectPath with the SteelHead-v.
The maximum number of DirectPath in-path pairs is one (two NICs total) for V150, V250, and V550, and
two (four NICs total) for all other virtual appliances.
Note:
You must use a Riverbed-branded NIC. SteelHead-v doesn’t support NICs that aren’t provided by Riverbed. If
you currently use a Riverbed-branded NIC with ESXi 4.1, you can use the same card if you want to upgrade the ESXi
version; however, you need to reconfigure the card to support the bypass method used in ESXi 5.x.
To configure the NIC in an ESXi 5.x host
1. Power down the ESXi host.
2. Follow the appliance manufacturer’s instructions for installing a NIC.
You can install the card in any available PCIe slot.
3. Connect the NIC cables.
4. Power up the ESXi host.
To configure the NIC as a pass-through device in an ESXi 5.x host
1. In vSphere, shut down the virtual machine.
Riverbed NICs for SteelHead-v
Manufacturing Part #
Orderable part #
Four-Port 1-GbE Copper Base-T
410-00115-01
NIC-1-001G-4TX-BP
Four-Port 1-GbE Fiber SX
410-00122-01
NIC-1-001G-4SX-BP
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