Riverbed WAN Accelerator

More recycling!   This RiverBed 5050 unit was put into retirement, so I played with it a bit.

A single AMD Opteron 2378 Quad core CPU @ 2.4ghz, upgradable to a 2nd CPU, 16gb ECC DDR2 ram (it had 8gb but I upgraded it to 16gb), LSI 1068 RAID card built in on the system board, holds sixteen 3.5" hard drives, it came with twelve 250gb Western Digital Enterprise hard drives, and dual power supplies.  The motherboard is propitiatory, so no replacement would easily work, it is designed for a very quick swap out.

The Riverbed OS (RIOS) is loaded on a Flash card that has the pin out of a USB header, like what one would find on a desktop motherboard.  These are "headless" systems, aka no monitor can be hooked up to it, all manipulation is done via a web console or a serial console.  I was curious so since it had PCI-e slots, I put a video card, and it worked, I was able to get into the BIOS, the RAID card utility, and use it like a normal server.







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