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Troubleshooting / Intermittent WAN Issues After wanos Install

« on: January 09, 2015, 01:06:56 AM »

After installing wanos on the ESXi server at a remote branch I am having some intermittent issues with some of the devices on the remote network. Right now its just the one wanos install, so nothing is being optimized, but traffic is flowing through the wanos vm. My network monitor was showing random devices on the remote network going down then up again. When I take the wanos VM out of the equation and reconnect the pfSense VM from the Bridge vSwitch to the LAN vSwitch, things start working reliably again.

Any ideas at all? I will keep testing and report back as well.

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Deployment / Re: what is the max WAN through put WANOS Support

« on: October 28, 2014, 02:31:47 PM »

There is even a newer model out now that has improved performance over the RevoDrive 3, the RevoDrive 350. I will let you know exactly how it all performs once I get it all setup. It may take a month or two to get all the pieces in place, but I think im going to go with a Lenovo RS-140 with the E3-1225 processor which is a slight step down from the E3-1230 but should be adequate for our needs.

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Deployment / Re: what is the max WAN through put WANOS Support

« on: October 26, 2014, 03:27:53 PM »

For interest sake, the steelhead CX-5055H that supports up to 400 Mbps has 10x SSD drives in a raid array.

And that Steelhead is only $99,950 with the required license
No reference to processor specs anywhere though. Probably a high end Xeon I imagine.

Either way, I plan on purchasing a dedicated appliance for our main site and will probably use a Xeon E3 1230 v2 and a PCI-e SSD like an OCZ RevoDrive or similar. For the branch offices I think a wanos VM will do nicely considering they will only need to handle a 20Mb upload. The ESXi servers at the remote offices all use 4x 15K SAS drives in RAID10.

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Deployment / Re: what is the max WAN through put WANOS Support

« on: October 22, 2014, 03:14:07 PM »

I am interested in some clarification on this subject, particularly for my setup. We have 4 sites, our main site has 400/400Mb connection while the 3 other offices are asymmetric 100/20Mb  down/up. A few questions:

1. Does wanos benefit more from multiple cpu cores or single thread performance?
2. Is processing power needed mostly for sending data or processing the received data?

I am wondering if we can setup a dedicated high performance wanos appliance at our main office where we have a 400/400 link, and stick with VMs (also set to high) at the remote locations since they will max out at only 20Mb upload.

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Features / Re: Performance with Syncing Autodesk Files

« on: October 22, 2014, 02:29:01 PM »

It is encouraging to see that kind of optimization for a Revit file with even a cold transfer! I can only assume Riverbed claims such a drastic improvement for Autodesk files where the data is already sitting in the local cache. I would guess that wanos will perform similarly unless Riverbed has some kind of specific optimizations for these types of files.
We shall find out once I get a proper test environment up and running.

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Features / Performance with Syncing Autodesk Files

« on: October 22, 2014, 03:42:39 AM »

Any idea what performance gains wanos provides for syncing of Revit and AutoCad files? I know this is a big selling point of the Riverbed products. Wan optimization is usually the way to go with Autodesk files because DFS-R and similar technologies tend to cause file corruption as a result of Autodesk's built in file syncing and locking mechanisms. This is the main area where we seek to improve performance.

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Deployment / Re: wanos + ESXi with pfSense Firewall VM

« on: October 15, 2014, 11:43:21 PM »

Works perfectly! Now I just need to get the other side setup and I think we will be good to go! I will report back when I have it all up and running on both ends. Thanks so much for your help!

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Deployment / Re: wanos + ESXi with pfSense Firewall VM

« on: October 15, 2014, 04:59:19 PM »

Thanks! I will give this a try and report back.

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Deployment / wanos + ESXi with pfSense Firewall VM

« on: October 15, 2014, 03:48:48 AM »

I have an ESXi server running at home where I have a pfSense firewall VM and Im having issues getting my head around how I need to set things up so I can test between home and office over OpenVPN.
On my home ESXi server I currently have two vSwitches, each with a dedicated NIC labeled LAN and WAN.
pfSense is connected to the WAN vSwitch as well as the LAN vSwitch along with everything else. How do I place wanos between the two within ESXi being that the firewall is not a separate device?



Thanks in advance for any assistance provided. wanos looks like a great product!