Overview
Riverbed® SteelConnect™ EX provides a flexible, extensible and software-defined network architecture that enables enterprises to provide agile and cost-effective WAN connectivity across the modern hybrid IT landscape. SteelConnect EX enables enterprises to increase WAN capacity, streamline the deployment and management of remote sites and applications, boost network uptime and reliability, accelerate application performance, and secure user access and data, all while reducing WAN circuit costs and boosting operational efficiency.
SteelConnect EX expands SD-WAN with industry-leading application acceleration and advanced software-defined security (SD-Security) including next-generation firewall (NGFW) and unified threat management (UTM) services. Enterprises can combine SD-WAN, Application Acceleration and SD-Security to create a software-defined branch (SD-Branch) experience that is fast, agile, secure and simple to operate.
Highlights
- Agility - Quickly respond to the needs of your business with application-defined, business intent-based policies that are centrally managed and applied network-wide across all remote locations, including zero touch provisioning and rapid change management. Utilize comprehensive routing and application aware path control to easily manage your global network.
- Performance - Deliver superior application performance to your business with industry-leading application optimization, end-to-end unified visibility with industry-leading network performance monitoring (NPM), scalability, high availability, dynamic native routing, integrated security, and cloud and self-hosting management.
- Security - Leverage secure network services and integrated NG firewall, UTM, content/URL filtering, secure web gateways, and web proxy capabilities to ensure the secure delivery of all applications across your hybrid enterprise.
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Additional details
Usage instructions
Complete the following steps to launch a SteelConnect EX FlexVNF AMI:
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Login into AWS console and search for EC2 service and click on Instances option.
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Click on Launch Instance option and locate the SteelConnect EX FlexVNF under AWS Marketplace.
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Select the SteelConnect EX FlexVNF required version and click Continue.
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Select the desired instance type and click 'Next'.
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Select your desired VPC environment in the 'Network' drop-down menu on Configure instance Page.
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Select your desired IP subnet for the first SteelConnect EX FlexVNF network interface in the 'Subnet' drop-down menu on Configure Instance Page.
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Add any additional network interfaces and select the appropriate subnet for each to connect to on Configure instance Page.
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Click Next and go to Configure Security Page. Create a new Security Group or select an existing security group option under Assign a security group option.
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Click 'Review and Launch', and then review the information.
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If the information is correct, click 'Launch', and then either select an existing key pair to use for authentication or create a new key pair and acknowledge the same. If you create a key pair make sure to download and save the private key and then Click 'Launch Instances'.
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Now on the AWS Console, wait for the instance to show the Instance state as running. Connect to your instance using an SSH client, and the private SSH key created or selected earlier in above step. Example: ssh -i flexvnf-keypair.pem admin@ec2-x-x-x-x.us-east-1.compute.amazonaws.com
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If you need management access to your SteelConnect EX FlexVNF instance from outside of your VPC, you will need to create an Elastic IP and associate it with first (eth0) interface of the SteelConnect EX FlexVNF network interface.
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Once SSH has connected, you should be at the SteelConnect EX FlexVNF instance command prompt on the SteelConnect EX FlexVNF. You may now begin configuring your instance.
Additional Information:
Once you launched the SteelConnect EX FlexVNF instance and logged in using ssh then you can perform the zero-touch provisioning to configure the instance.
For details around zero touch provisioning and other configuration, please refer to Riverbed Support documentation portal.
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Excellent service
Next generation product to grow IT business
Good SD-WAN Solution
User friendly and easy to understand.
If there are things to be improved as of now, I think it's more on the patch updates. It's not for a negative side but the positive side like continuous patch updates for the lifelong security usage of the customer.
Centralized network management and ability to enforce application path.