RIVERBED Deployment Installation & Configuration Technical Training - Course

Objective

To provide the attendee with sufficient information and skills to enable them to deploy, install and configure a Riverbed WAN optimisation and acceleration solution.

Duration

3 days

Audience

Targeted specifically at individuals involved in the design, deployment, or administration/technical support of Steelhead appliances.

Pre-Requisites

A good understanding and experience of:

TCP/IP network configuration
Operating system administration (Windows or Linux)
The OSI 7 - layer networking model

Course Structure

A three day ‘hands on’ course designed to equip attendees with the necessary skills to install, configure and deploy the Riverbed Steelheads over Wide Area Networks (WAN) Delegates work in pairs with a PC each, one configured as the data centre and the other as the remote site, connected together across a simulated WAN using a Network Nightmare WAN simulator. The course aims to finish shortly after lunch on the third day although there will be the opportunity for delegates to stay later to use laboratory equipment and ask questions of tutors.. The main topics covered are:

Understand the basic features and purpose of Steelhead appliances
Configure the product
Size the product for a given network
Navigate the GUI
Have a basic understanding of the Command Line Interface (CLI)
Perform basic troubleshooting and identify potential problems encountered deploying the product
Perform network integration

Content

Overview of the Riverbed Solution

Background, selected customers, Steelhead Appliances, range of applications accelerated, remote office problems, why applications are slower over the WAN, how the technology works (transparent deployment, SDR, solving TCP chattiness, Transaction Prediction, PFS, deployment and Introduction to Mobile Client.

Product Tour

A hands-on overview of the structure of the GUI : menus and options. A demonstration of the CLI interface, basic commands and modes.

Steelhead Connection Interception

How does the Steelhead intercept a connection and how do packets flow?

Network Design

Design Templates: Design for serving user locations, designs for serving data centres, designs for serving combination user/data centres or very large offices, custom modes.

Transaction Prediction

A technical session on CIFS optimisations, NFS optimisations, MAPI optimisations, MAPI – prepopulation HTTP/HTTPS optimisations, Disaster Recovery Accelarator and MS-SQL optimisation.

Deployment & Sizing

Information and considerations for when deploying Steelheads.

Cracking the Hood

Architecture of the box, operating system, disk set-up, mixing versions, security, sysdump, tcpdump and coredump.

Agentless Prepopulation

How to ‘pre-warm’ Steelheads to reduce the initial transfer time.

PFS

Setting up and configuring Proxy File Services in local mode, broadcast mode and stand alone mode.

QoS

Using the GUI/CLI to configure QoS classification.

TCP Optimisation (HS-TCP & MX-TCP)

A technical overview of the techniques used to utlise bandwidth more effectively on Long Fat Networks (LFNs).

Common Issues

How to figure out what is wrong. Talking through several problem scenarios.

Tips & Tricks

Recovering a forgotten password, Steelhead reconstruction, network integration tips.

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