Brocade virtual traffic manager is a softwarebased layer 7 application delivery controller adc designed to deliver faster, high performance user experience. The stingarysteelapp services controller ssc is a central management licensing tool which automates the deployment, licensing and metering of individual stingray traffic manager instances. Riverbed steelapp traffic manager l, 10mbps, 1,000 ssl tps. It can be used in conjunction with a standalone firewall if desired. Bolt connects directly to remote nodes with ssh or winrm, eliminating the need to install any agent software. Riverbed rolls out stingray products network world. Integrated with juniper networks contrail, riverbed stingray traffic manager is a full performance software and virtual l7 application delivery controller adc that is cloudaware, as dynamic as the application itself, and able to fit easily into changing environments. As software on the hardware or hypervisor, as a virtual appliance on vmware, xen, and oraclevm, in any supported cloud infrastructure such as amazon ec2, gogrid, iij, joyent. Riverbed stingray traffic manager module for puppet. Brocade is moving more into the application space, with major emphasis on software defined networking sdn solutions right through their product offerings. Now its time to look at why stingray traffic manager really shines when. Riverbed stingray traffic manager global load balancing. At that point, the technology was known as zeus aptimizer. Stingray traffic manager software installation and getting started guide iii.
Performance, flexibility, simplicity and subscription pricing available in virtual and software based configurations, stingray traffic manager is a. If youre looking for additional governance and auditing, puppet. Riverbed stingray traffic manager software selected as certified. Upgrade brocadestingray traffic manager stm via cli. Zeu ss trafficscript en gine enabled users to implement wha tever traffic man agement policies were most appropriate.
Upgrade brocadestingray traffic manager stm via cli upgrade via cli login to the server where software package is located and use winscp or similar program to copy software package to the load balancer you are intending to upgrade. Stingray traffic manager puppet module project url. Riverbed introduces asymmetric solutions portfolio. Riverbed stingray traffic manager is a full performance software and virtual layer 7 application delivery controller adc that enables enterprises and cloud operators to create, manage, and deliver key services more quickly, more flexibly, and at a lower cost. This is a software load balancer with high reliability that automatically checks the health of your application and decides whether to forward traffic to a particular server based on state of. Stingray traffic manager offers much more than just load balancing. After installing the stingray traffic manager software on red hat enterprise linux 6 default install, there is no access to admin web ui. And second, is the range of flexibility that you have with a software defined approach to configuration and deployment. In the previous article on load balancing, we showed how easy it is to create a new service with stingray software. Upgrading a stingray traffic manager is easy either via cli or gui. Stingray traffic manager is a software based adc that provides unprecedented scale and flexibility to deliver applications across the widest range of environments, from physical and virtual data centers to public and hybrid clouds.
Riverbed steelapp traffic manager the industrys leading virtual application delivery controller. Stingray traffic manager software installation and. The stingray steelapp traffic manger stm is an application delivery controller ideally suited to webapplications. The stingray traffic manager is a fullyfeatured layer 7 application delivery controller that you use to frontend your web application. Brocade vtm basic offers much more than simple load balancing. With unmatched scalability and performance, unique customizability and. Stingray traffic manager software offers simple scripting, easy user interfacebased configuration management, and robust application programming interface apis that enable the solution to be. It is recommended that you visit the vendors web site for the. By clicking accept, you understand that we use cookies to improve your experience on our website. Brocade acquires riverbeds steelapp for virtual adc. It is natively architected for software defined environments and enables. As requests are received, a range of optimization techniques ensures that requests are presented in the. It inspects, transforms and routes requests as it loadbalances them across the application infrastructure, all through an easy to use gui interface. The product was marketed by riverbed as steelapp, having earlier been known as stingray traf fic manager.
Stingray traffic manager deploy microsoft exchange 2010. Additional hardware capacity is recommended when using the stingray application firewall option. The steelapp product line has been acquired by brocade and rebranded as vadc. Steelapp traffic manager inspects and processes application traffic, with full payload inspection and streaming. Stingray traffic manager is a fullperformance software and virtual layer 7 application delivery controller adc that enables enterprises and cloud operators to create, manage, and deliver key services faster, more flexibly, and at a lower cost. Stingray traffic manager software optimizes performance and delivers scalability to lync by load balancing between pooled servers, increasing lyncs ability to. Riverbed integrates cloud ready stingray traffic manager. Stingray performs many great features such as load. Riverbed renamed it to the stingray traffic manager in october of 2011. Riverbed stingray traffic manager software selected as.
How stingray traffic manager works stingray traffic manager inspects and processes application traffic with full payload inspection and streaming. The joyent brocade traffic manager image is a smartos base64 image preconfigured as load balancer that helps you efficiently manage network resources and control application traffic. Riverbed technology stingray traffic manager validated. Stingray traffic manager is also certified for microsoft exchange and microsoft lync as the leading software load balancer. Stingray traffic manager is a software application delivery controller adc, which helps enterprises and cloud operators create, manage, and.
The industrys leading virtual application delivery controller. Stingray traffic manager, which is a virtual application delivery controller adc, focuses on enterprise software hosted on servers. The traffic manager comes in three flavors targeting large. This document describes performancerelated tuning you may wish to apply to a production stingray traffic manager software, virtual appliance or cloud instance. Traffi c manag er managed applicat ion traf fic, inspecting, transforming and routing requests across the application infrastructure.
This solution combines stingray traffic manager software application. Stingray traffic manager lets you define rules and policies to control application, and you can do this in three ways. Virtual appliance installation and getting started guide describes the virtual appliance variant of stingray traffic manager stingray. When running a tcpdump on the traffic manager while attempting to connect to the web ui using a browser, the packet trace shows the client req. Stingray traffic manager software installation and getting started guide 7 chapter 2 getting started network architecture your traffic manager sits between the internet and your backend servers, acting as a reverse proxy. This solution combines stingray traffic manager software application acceleration capability with vmware vfabric application director automation to allow customers to create application blueprints that can be used to provision and scale multitier applications, faster and smarter in a hybrid cloud environment. Following are easy steps to upgrade via the administration interface on stm. Riverbed stingray traffic manager solution with juniper. San francisconovember 28, 2012 riverbed technology nasdaq. Starting friday november 6, 2015 at 5pm pst, customers will open cases with brocade and will no longer use the riverbed support site to open steelapp related cases. Riverbed has published servertemplates that run stingray traffic manager. Stingray traffic manager, opnet and flyscript youtube.
Riverbed stingray traffic manager is a full performance software and virtual layer 7 application delivery. Navigate to the system traffic managers page on the admin interface of the traffic manager you. Overview document conventions 6 stingray traffic manager. The stingray traffic manager software was designed with the cloud in mind, and its ability to accelerate applications is unrivaled. Control and flexibility with stingray traffic manager joyent. By integrating stingray traffic manager as a part of the vcloud suite and making it available on the vmware cloud management marketplace, riverbed and vmware deliver the agility businesses need by automating the deployment of it services and enabling the rapid delivery of applications including application release automation and support for. Exchange server 2010 load balancer deployment microsoft docs. Virtual appliance installation and getting started guide preface read this preface for an.
For heightened security, stingray allows you to nominate a particular network interface for. The stingray technology is based on technology assets that riverbed gained through the acquisition of technology vendor zeus in july of 2011. Application delivery controllers adcs are a critical part of modern enterprise applications, as they improve loadbalancing, reliability, availability and security. Stingray web application firewall can be deployed by itself or as an add on to stingray traffic manager. Tuning pulse traffic manager for best performance pulse. Customers are recommended to upgrade to this version to take advantage of the changes. Stingray traffic manager software may be installed on a supported operating system running on any supported physical. Brocade virtual traffic manager basic load balancer 300 mbps. Riverbed integrates cloudready stingray traffic manager. In 2004 zeus technology released zeus traffic manager originally zeus. Read this guide for an introduction to the functionality available in the stingray virtual appliance, and. Public kb 5529 after installing the stingray traffic. Stingray traffic manager is a highperformance software application delivery controller adc that includes web application acceleration and application security into a single, integrated solution for online, enterprise, and cloud applications stingray traffic manager version 9. The software was tested by riverbed and certified by microsoft to meet lync server.
Stingray traffic manager software optimizes performance and delivers scalability to lync by load balancing between pooled servers, increasing lyncs ability to deliver highlyavailable and reliable communications services for enterprise users. Pulse secures network traffic manager features high performance load balancing and application delivery. Stingray developer alex gosse discusses stingray traffic manager s global load balancing feature, which enables you to redistribute traffic to. Steelapp traffic manager capabilities can be enhanced using trafficscript or java extensions.
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