Axial Riverbed Seminar - Riverbed Steelhead - 28 Nov 2012

Riverbed Steelhead

Christopher Franz

Partner Systems Engineer

28th Nov 2012

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Changing Business Environment

Mobility | UC&C | Cloud | Virtualization

Gartner, 2011

By 2014, 90% of

organizations will support

corporate applications

on personal devices

Increase in bandwidth

requirements

U.S. companies expect that 34% of their total

applications will be cloud-based in two years

Application Performance Degradation

Over 50% of workloads

will be virtualized by the

end of 2012

Data Center Contention

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Riverbed Steelhead: Industry Leading WAN Optimization

Ubiquitous Optimization Solution – Optimisation=Competitive advantage

DATA CENTER

PUBLIC CLOUD

BRANCH OFFICE

MOBILE WORKERS

WAN

By 2014 up to 80% of end-user traffic will move to the WAN

Equip your infrastructure for the modern network workload

Riverbed Steelhead Technology

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QoSApplicationData Transport

Deliver Speed, Scalability, Simplicity, and Saving…

De-dupe TCP/UDPApplication

Optimization

Prioritize

Real Time

Traffic

Management

Intelligent Network Optimization

… with Riverbed Steelhead Technology!

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with Data Streamlining

• Patented Data de-duplication using

scalable data referencing to eliminate

redundant data transfers at the byte-

sequence level

• Universal data store

• Support of prevalent encrypted

protocols

Data Streamlining

• Maximum optimization across protocols

and applications

• Data Accuracy is 100% guaranteed

• Best de-dupe ratio (for all protocols and

apps)

• Data reduction for encrypted traffic

• Maximum utilization of available HW

resources for most efficient result

Riverbed Advantage

All TCP-based protocols and applications

• CIFs, encrypted/unencrypted MAPI,

TDS, NFS, FTP, HTPP, HTPPS, Oracle

Forms

• MSFT Office, Lotus Notes, CAD,

Oracle, ERP, database, and data back

up/replication

UDP-based file transfer applications

• Signient, Aspera and Veritas Volume replicator

Use Cases

DE-DUPLICATE DATA

DATA

CENTERUSERS

NETWORK

Data

60-95% reduction in WAN traffic

95% reduction in video-on-demand bandwidth!

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Bandwidth Optimization with Enhanced Control and QoS

DATA

CENTER

USERS

• App-Flow Engine Deep Packet

Inspection – Now 600+

• Latency-aware Traffic Scheduling

• Template-driven UI

• In-bound and out-bound traffic control

QoS

• Maximum accuracy in providing

application classification

• Eliminating jitter and starvation for

real time and biz critical apps

• Ease of configuration and deployment

• Predictable application performance in all situations

Riverbed Advantage

• Business critical applications

• VoIP

• Video

• Desktop virtualization Infrastructure

(VDI)

Use Cases

Ensure sufficient bandwidth for real-time and biz critical traffic and eliminate further unnecessary QoS implementations

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Enhance network performance by scaling application prioritization to over 600 apps

Extend VDI optimization with PCoIP application prioritization (PCoIP QoS)

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Application Acceleration with Transport Streamlining

DATA

CENTERUSERS

OPTIMIZE TCP

• Window scaling and virtual window

expansion• High Speed TCP, Max Speed TCP,

and SCPS• Automatically adjusts transfer

parameters based on network

conditions

Transport Streamlining

• Reduce transport protocol chattiness by 65% to 98%

• Enable up to 95% utilization on high-bandwidth, high latency connections

• Optimizes TCP and UDP traffic

Riverbed Advantage

• TCP

• UDP

• IPV6

• Satellite

• Data migration

• Data center consolidation

Use Cases

Application runs up to 100 times faster!

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Application Acceleration with Application Streamlining

DATA

CENTERUSERS

VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE APPLICATION LATENCY

• Additional acceleration for specific

applications

• Transparent pre-population

• Native stream splitting for live video

over HTTP

• Traffic recognition algorithm for large

scale data transfers

Application Streamlining

• Largest number of industry leading

application support

(16 and growing)

• Accelerating cold transfers

• Conserving WAN bandwidth against

bandwidth hungry video apps

• Disaster recovery acceleration

Riverbed Advantage

• HTTP, Adobe & Microsoft Silverlight

Video over HTTP, Live and on-

demand video (Polycom

& Adobe) SSL, Microsoft Exchange,

Microsoft SharePoint, Database apps,

web content,

CAD app, CRM, SAP, Lotus Notes,

Use Cases

delivering a reduction in WAN round trips from 65-98% greatly improving the speed of the application and the overall user

experience

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Ease of Use with Management Streamlining

WAN/VPN

Central Management

Console (CMC)

BRANCH OFFICE

BRANCH OFFICE

BRANCH OFFICE

• Port and application auto discovery

• Asymmetric route detection and correction

• Network discovery/simplified routing

• Remote deployment and installation

• No changes to clients, servers, or routers

Management Streamlining• Plug-and-play deployment of

Steelhead appliances

• Ease of deployment for for Mesh networks

• Complex network integration

• Enterprise deployment for Steelhead Mobile

• Flexible and scalable deployment

Riverbed Advantage

• Complex Networks/Mesh Networks

• Asymmetric deployments

• Remote management

• Mobile worker installation and

management

Use Cases

Configure WAN optimization in your enterprise network in minutes!

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• NFS

• Agentless CIFS pre-population

• PFS Integrated Replication

• CIFS Overlapping Opens

•High Speed TCP

•TCP Connection Pooling

•MAPI 2K3 Enhancements

• non-cached mode

• Secure CIFS option

•MS-SQL

• MAPI 2K3

• CIFS large folder

• Proxy File Services

RiOS 1 & 2

RiOS 3 RiOS 4

• Lotus Notes

• Encrypted MAPI

• SMB Signing Support

• MSFT Office Outlook

Acceleration

• MAPI 2K7

• Web App

• Enhanced SSL

• SMBv2

• Outlook anywhere

• Satellite

• Client-side certification

• Deep Packet Inspection

• App-based QoS

• BPOS

• Sharepoint

• MAPI 2010

• Citrix Optimization

• Mac CIFS Optimization

• Centralized Print optimization

• RSP, SSL & Notes

RiOS 5 RiOS 6 RiOS 7

• UDP Optimization

• Encrypted Notes

• End-to-End Kerberos

• ICA over SSL & CDM

• Satellite integration

• BPOS-D support

• SMB1/SMB2 enhancements

• SaaS

• ICA multi-port & multi-stream

• Max Speed TCP

• SSL

• Enhanced HTTP(S)

• Oracle

•Unified data store

•Disk-based data reduction/

de-dupe

•Auto negotiate to decline

SMB signing

• QoS enhancement & HFSC


•Disk-based data reduction/ de-dupe

•Auto negotiate to decline SMB signing

• DR Acceleration

• QoS Enhancements


• Unified data store

• Disk-based data reduction/ de-dupe

• Auto negotiate to decline SMB signing

•Hieratical QoS

•DR Acceleration Enhancements

•DR Acceleration

•QoS Enhancements

•QoS enhancement & HFSC


•Disk-based data reduction/ de-dupe

•Auto negotiate to decline SMB signing

• SDR for data rep workloads

• EMC SRDF module• Hieratical QoS

• DR Acceleration enhancements

• DR Acceleration




• Disk-based data reduction/ de-dupe

• Auto negotiate to decline SMB signing

• Serial Clustering

• In-Path rule Port Ranges

• Touchless Configuration

• Scheduled Operations

• Enhanced Policy Configs

• Aggregated Reporting

• Simplified Routing

• Support for VLAN trunked

links 802.1q

• Steelhead Encryption

• Connection Forwarding

• Asymmetric Route Detection

• Netflow Export

• Enhanced Traffic Reporting

• Client-side connection

forwarding

• New Hardware

• New models

• Encrypted Data Store

• Enhanced Auto-Discovery

• Active-Active Failover

• Print Server•Asymmetric Route Detection

• Netflow Export

• Enhanced Traffic Reporting

• Client-side connection forwarding

• New Hardware

• New models

•Serial Clustering








links 802.1q



• Top Talkers Reporting

• RSP Enhancements

• Riverbed Services Platform

• 3 WAN Visibility Modes

• Centralized Security

• IPSEC Enhancements

• Role Based Administration

• Enhanced GUI

• IPv6 phase 1

• CMC 6.0

• FIPS

• CommonCriteria

• Passthrough Reporting

• Diagnostics improvements

• Netflow v9/improved SNMP

•RDF reporting for SRDF/A

• HTTP auto-config

• Embedded Cascade Shark

• CIFS Pre-pop enhancements

• IPv6 phase 2

• SNMPv3 encryption

• Windows Domain Health

• SDR for data rep workloads

• EMC SRDF module

• Hieratical QoS

• DR Acceleration enhancements

• DR Acceleration




• Disk-based data reduction/

de-dupe

• Auto negotiate to decline

SMB signing

•SMBv2

•Outlook anywhere

•Satellite

•Client-side certification

•Deep Packet Inspection

•App-based QoS

•BPOS

•Sharepoint

•MAPI 2010

•Citrix Optimization

•Mac CIFS Optimization

•Centralized Print optimization

•RSP, SSL & Notes

•Lotus Notes

•Encrypted MAPI

•SMB Signing Support

•MSFT Office Outlook

Acceleration

•MAPI 2K7

•Web App

•Enhanced SSL

•SSL

•Enhanced HTTP(S)

•Oracle

•NFS

• Agentless CIFS pre-population

•PFS Integrated Replication

•CIFS Overlapping Opens

• MAPI 2K3 Enhancements


• MS-SQL

• MAPI 2K3



•Lotus Notes

•Encrypted MAPI

•SMB Signing Support

•MSFT Office Outlook Acceleration

•MAPI 2K7

•Web App

•Enhanced SSL

•SSL

•Enhanced HTTP(S)

•Oracle

•NFS

•Agentless CIFS pre-population




• MS-SQL

• MAPI 2K3



•SSL

•Enhanced HTTP(S)

•Oracle

•NFS

•Agentless CIFS pre-population




• non-cached mode


• MS-SQL

• MAPI 2K3


• Proxy File Services•NFS

•Agentless CIFS

pre-population



•High Speed TCP

•TCP Connection Pooling

•MAPI 2K3 Enhancements

• non-cached mode


•MS-SQL

• MAPI 2K3



•MS-SQL

• MAPI 2K3



• MSHigh Speed TCP

• TCP Connection Pooling


• non-cached mode


• Media Stream splitting

• Inbound Q0S

• Encrypted Data Store

• Enhanced Auto-

Discovery

• Active-Active Failover

• Print Server

• Asymmetric Route

Detection

• Netflow Export

• Enhanced Traffic

Reporting

• Client-side connection

forwarding

•New Hardware

• New models









links 802.1q











links 802.1q



Cloud

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Riverbed Steelhead:A History of Technical Innovation

Mobile 1

Mobile 2 Mobile 3

A History of:

Feature Innovation

Timely Delivery

High Quality Releases

Steelhead Product Family

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DATA

CENTER

PUBLIC CLOUD

BRANCH OFFICE

MOBILE WORKERS

A Steelhead for Every Need

Steelhead Manager (CMC and SMC)

Steelhead Appliances Virtual Steelhead Cloud Steelhead Steelhead MobileSteelhead

Data Center Scale

WAN

Wherever your business leads, and wherever your data goes, Riverbed has a Steelhead optimization solution to accelerate your business

Physical appliance for desktop,

branch office, or data centers

Virtual appliance for specialized

physical requirements and private

cloud

Virtual appliance deployments

in public cloudSoftware on PC & Mac

laptops for mobile workers

Interceptor

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Market Leading Wan Optimization Appliances

• Virtual Services Platform (VSP) integrated featuring VMware

virtualization

• Solid State Disks (SSDs)

• High performance HW (memory, CPU, connection counts and disk)

• Granite Edge module capable (data consolidation)STEELHEAD EX PLATFORM

BRANCH OFFICE BOX

• Core Steelhead functionality

• Covering a wide range of capacity and connection counts

• High performance hardware (memory, CPU, connection counts and

disk)

• No VSP STEELHEAD CX PLATFORM

DEDICATED WAN

OPTIMIZATION

Covering small to large offices &

Branch to datacenter Environments

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Deliver and manage real-time services to the branch through VMware vCenter central management

BRANCH

DATA CENTER

Branch office Box: Steelhead EX appliance + Virtual Services Platform (VSP) with integrated VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0

Based on industry standard open platform

VMware vCenter

VMware ESxi

VMware ESXi

Branch Consolidation and Agile Service Delivery: Riverbed Steelhead EX

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Steelhead Appliances Sized for All Environments

250-H• 2 Mbps throughput

• 200 connections

250-M• 2 Mbps throughput

• 125 connections

250-L• 1 Mbps throughput

• 40 connections

150• 1 Mbps throughput

• 20 connections


• 650 connections


• 350 connections


• 250 connections

Larger

Office

Smaller

Office

Data

Center


• 2300 connections




• 900 connections






• 900 connections


• 650 connections


• 350 connections







1160-VH• 45 Mbps throughput







• 900 connections

1260-VH• 45 Mbps throughput







• 900 connections

7050-L• 1 Gbps throughput

• 100,000 connections







6050• 310 Mbps throughput


EX Series

XX50 Series

CX Series

EX + Granite

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Application/ SaaS

Challenges Steelhead: Industry leading performance available for SaaS

• Application are changing and services

are migrating to cloud

• Software as a Service such as:• Google Apps,

• Microsoft 365

• Salesforce

• Cloud Steelhead provides the same solution as Steelhead appliance for cloud and SaaS applications

• Simple portal-based management to deploy and manage cloud steelhead only in three clicks

• Seamless cloud integration to take advantage of the cloud flexibility without performance concerns

BRANCH OFFICE

WAN

MOBILE WORKERS

DATA CENTER

LAN-like performance across the public internet

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Axial Riverbed Seminar - Riverbed Steelhead - 28 Nov 2012