Riverbed Services Platforms (RSP/VSP)

Consolidation and virtualisation are top IT trends, helping businesses to increase their flexibility and efficiency in delivering valuable services while reducing costs.

Riverbed Services Platform and Virtual Services Platform are dedicated virtual platforms running on Steelhead appliances, giving organisations the ability to run services and applications virtually in a protected partition.

The Riverbed Virtual Service platform (VSP) simplifies the management of distributed infrastructure even further by consolidating services onto a VMware platform on a Steelhead EX series appliance. VSP eliminates the need for dedicated servers in the branch office thereby delivering a branch office box solution, minimising hardware and enabling further consolidation of IT operations.

The VSP and RSP support virtually any VMware compatible application and service. Many Riverbed products are also designed specifically to work on both platforms to further extend the value of Steelhead appliances.

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Riverbed Virtual Services Platform (VSP)

The Riverbed Virtual Services Platform (VSP) runs in a dedicated partition on Steelhead EX series appliances to give organisations the opportunity to consolidate previously un-consolidateable services onto a high performance branch office box.

VSP features a VMware hypervisor to run virtualised instances of a company’s own services or take advantage of applications designed for VSP by a Riverbed Technology Alliance (RTA) partner.

VSP allows fine-grained configuration of data rules to allow virtualised services to run in or out of path, all without any impact on core WAN optimisation performance. Using this revolutionary approach, IT leaders can deploy edge services virtually in all of their branch offices without having to deploy and maintain standalone servers to run the applications.

VSP Features:

  • Enhanced ROI: Standard on Steelhead EX series appliances combining WAN optimisation and branch office services onto a single appliance
  • Dedicated VMware Hypervisor: Take full advantage of VMware expertise and hypervisor capabilities to lower branch office capital and operational costs
  • Advanced network rules capabilities: Centralised monitoring of virtual instances with Riverbed management tools
  • Application flexibility: Run existing virtual services or RTA Partner packages
  • Support for iSCSI targets from a hosted windows package
  • Integrated watchdog for higher availability
  • Runs both the Steelhead Mobile Controller (SMC-VE) or Cascade Sensor-VE as well as other qualified and customer packages
  • Packages and Steelhead EX appliances can be deployed in-path or virtually in path, using WCCP and PBR
  • Supports tested applications from a wide variety of category-leading products, as well as any VMware virtual machine
Download Datasheet: Riverbed VSP Feature Brief

Riverbed Services Platform (RSP)

The Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) provides customers with the capability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead xx50 and some xx20 appliances.

RSP allows customers to deploy local services in all of their branch offices without the need to deploy and maintain standalone servers to run the applications.

RSP Features:

  • Enhanced ROI: A simple upgrade to xx50 and most xx20 appliances combines WAN optimisation and branch office services onto a single appliance to offer greater overall value
  • Application flexibility: Run existing virtual services or Riverbed Technology Alliance (RTA) partner packages.
  • Advanced network rules capabilities
  • Ability to add virtual disk space to packages
  • Support for iSCSI targets from a hosted windows package
  • Enhanced watchdog for higher availability
  • Runs both the Steelhead Mobile Controller (SMC-VE) or Cascade Sensor-VE
  • Works virtually inpath
  • Supports tested applications from a wide variety of category-leading products, as well as any VMware virtual machine
Download Datasheet: Riverbed RSP Feature Brief

The following Riverbed Technology Alliance partners provide software that can be run on the VSP and RSP:

Riverbed Packages:

  • Steelhead Mobile Controller VE - Manages Steelhead Mobile licenses and controls the deployment, management, and reporting of Steelhead Mobile software clients.
  • Cascade Sensor VE - Enables seamless performance measurement and delivers network visibility in both optimised and nonoptimised environments - without requiring expensive physical probes in every branch office.

Edge Services Solution:

Enables services like DC, AD, file and print serving, streaming media and BranchCache while delivering LANlike performance for end users around the globe.

Partners:
  • Microsoft (Windows Server 2008 R2, 2008 or 2003) – Print Server, AD, DC, File Serving

Security Solution:

Delivers an end-to-end security solution with the flexibility to choose the best-of-breed security vendors.

Partners:


 Download Datasheet: Riverbed Security Solution Brief

Video Solution:

Delivers a complete video communications and streaming solution that captures and manages live and on-demand video, distributes Flash and Windows Media formats, and reduces the impact of video bandwidth consumption on the network.

Partners: Download Datasheet: Enterprise Video Solution Brief

Networking & Management Solution:

Helps deliver routing and end-to-end visibility into application performance. Also provides the ability to manage and monitor application response times and SLA requirements at the branch office.

Partners: