RIVERBED End-User Administration Training

Objective

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

Duration

2 days

Audience

Technical Support, Data Centre Professionals

Pre-Requisites

A good understanding and experience of:

TCP/IP and data networking configuration
A working knowledge of operating system administration
A basic understanding of the OSI 7-layer networking model

Course Structure

A two-day ‘hands-on’ course designed to equip attendees with the necessary skills to administer, configure and upgrade Riverbed Steelheads. 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 main topics covered are:

Product Overview and Capabilities
Product Tour and Demo (GUI and Command Line)
Transaction Prediction
Interception and Auto-Discovery
Network Design
Top Problems
Cracking the Hood - what is inside the box
Sizing the Box Per Office/li>
Agentless Prepopulation
PFS
Common Issues - how to fi gure out what is wrong
Tips and Tricks

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, High-Speed TCP, PFS), deployment, GUI overview.

Transaction Prediction

CIFS optimisations, NFS optimisations, MAPI optimisations, MAPI - prepopulation and HTTP/HTTPS Optimisation.

Steelhead Connection Interception

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

Network Design

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