Okay... I think I get it now. All the RB does, or at least it did when I used
them years ago, is cache content so that one PC pulls it over the WAN and the
others don't have to. If they still work that way they will not harm nor
benefit your CM environment. If they are doing more than they used to I can't
speak to that because I haven't touched one in a very long time.
When I used them I replaced DP's with them.
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Ryan Shugart
Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 2:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [mssms] Use of Riverbeds at remote offices
Well, each remote office has both a Server 2012R2 machine acting as a DP and a
Riverbed appliance. The appliances optimize all WAN traffic (not just SCCM but
standard file share, VOIP, etc.) between the branch office and home office.
So, when we send out a new package from the primary site server to the remote
DPs, they pass through the riverbeds and that traffic is optimized as well.
Now I know SCCM 2012R2 compresses traffic heading to remote DPs where SCCM 2007
did not, so its not as important now as it was then, but since the Riverbeds
are there and just optimizing everything, including SCCM, I was just saying it
hasn't caused any issues. We didn't put them for SCCM specifically, more for
standard file access and Citrix access from remote offices.
Ryan
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John
Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 1:12 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [mssms] Use of Riverbeds at remote offices
When you say "behind 19 DP's" I don't follow you.. Back when I did use
Riverbeds, which was on SMS 2003 I should say, we used them in-place of DP's.
In very small offices the cached on the riverbed typically would suffice for
content when doing patches etc. Again, now there are much better ways to
accomplish this goal. i.e. Nomad
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MCITP, MCTS, MCSA
Desktop Architect
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
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From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart
Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 2:07 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [mssms] Use of Riverbeds at remote offices
Actually we use Riverbeds behind about 19 DPs at remote offices and it works
just fine. We use HTTP, not HTTPS traffic for our DPs (yes I know and that
will change) so can't comment on the certs but its been fine. We did run into
issues with the Riverbeds with the old CM07 environment and had to put bypasses
on all the remote DPs but that hasn't come up again in 2012R2. So yes, someone
does use Riverbeds, they still exist.
Ryan
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John
Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 12:57 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [mssms] Use of Riverbeds at remote offices
Jeeze... that post was 5 years ago! Nobody uses Riverbeds anymore. When I did
say that I liked Riverbeds it was only as a WAN accelerator not anything more.
It sounds like you are trying to run a DP on the appliance. If that's the case
I'm unfamiliar with that use case, probably because as I said...Nobody uses
riverbeds anymore. :)
If I had a branch office scenario where I needed a DP and I couldn't have a DP
I'd buy nomad and be done with it. That is simple, cheap and well proven
technology.
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John Marcum
MCITP, MCTS, MCSA
Desktop Architect
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
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From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Wallace
Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 10:29 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] Use of Riverbeds at remote offices
Hi there folks
I was wondering if someone would have some detail on using Riverbed Steelheads
with CM Agents please?
We are working on a CM design with DPs at a head office location hosting
BranchCache and clients at remote offices. Between them we have a number of
SteelHeads and I am keen to find out more about how this scenario stands up.
The customer only supports Riverbedding HTTPS traffic so the assumption is that
we will be supplying the web server certs of the DPs so that they can get at
the data while in transit in order to cache it
As I have been BinGoogling I have found that Mr Marcum is a fan but Mr Sandys
is not
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/d9ced859-9fe9-4210-9418-3b3f5e02be45/riverbed-scenario?forum=configmgrgeneral
I also note that RiOS 8.5 introduced support for BranchCache in hosted mode.
Now I know that CM does not support Hosted mode, running in distributed mode
but should the customer implement this does anyone know if the Riverbeds then
publish a service connection point?
Best Wishes
Jason
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