Physical Drives
After booting the wan acceleration appliance from USB, by default the datastore will be mounted on the boot partition. For the best performance the datastore can be mounted on a solid state drive. The .img raw image file can be written directly to the destination drive as per the USB Start Guide. When SCSI drives are used, it is recommended to boot [...]
Connecting cables to the correct ports
User workstations and Servers connect to the lan0 network. The wanos appliances connect to the wan on the wan0 port.
Here are a few tips and tools to assist in the process:
On default, eth0 would be assigned to wan0 and eth1 to lan0.
The web interface displays a green indicator when a port is connected.
If the log displays “Peer detected on [...]
Step by Step Guides with screenshots:
Single VM Install on Hyper-V
Full lab on Hyper-V
Quick Start Guide:
By default Wanos runs in bridge or switch mode. In this back to back lab example, theoretically no configuration is required on the wan optimization appliance to test optimization. In other words, it is plug and play, as long as the wan0 and lan0 are [...]
Wan Optimization Appliance – Bare Metal Whitebox
A Wanos Wan Optimization Appliance is very simple to get up and running. All that is required is a very good quality USB, Compact Flash or physical hard drive, a minimum of 2 GB RAM and two Ethernet interfaces. Note when making the bootable appliances, make sure the destination drive name is specified correctly to [...]