Riverbed SteelFusion Edge 2200 - Steelfusion Edge Overview

SteelFusion Edge Hardware and Maintenance Guide 11
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SteelFusion Edge Overview
The SteelFusion Edge appliances contain two physical nodes per appliance, which provide true
hardware resource separation and isolation. These two compute nodes, the RiOS node and the
hypervisor node, are connected through Gigabit Ethernet interconnects that allow both nodes to
communicate for management, networking, and storage data. Each node has its own resources with the
exception that the hypervisor node does not contain storage resources other than hardware for the
hypervisor boot device. Storage for the hypervisor node is provided from the RiOS node through the
interconnects using iSCSI.
The SteelFusion Edge appliances are the virtual edge of the data center that allows end users in a
branch to access and write to centralized storage over the WAN at local speeds. The SteelFusion Edge
appliances consist of the following products:
 SteelFusion Edge 2100
 SteelFusion Edge 2200
 SteelFusion Edge 3100
 SteelFusion Edge 3200
 SteelFusion Edge 5100
This overview provides a description of the SteelFusion Edge appliances and includes the following
sections:
 “1U SteelFusion Edge appliances” on page 12
 “2U SteelFusion Edge appliances” on page 16
 “Field Replaceable Units” on page 18