Configuring Riverbed Edge and Associated Data Sources

Riverbed Edge provides connectivity to Riverbed Data Store for supported data sources. These data sources:

  1. Are network monitoring applications embedded in a customer environment. For instance, Riverbed Technology's NPM Data Sources (e.g. NetIM, NetProfiler, and AppResponse).

  2. Contribute observability data to Riverbed Data Store to support advanced processing capabilities such as analytics, automation, or multi-modal AI. The data sources send observability data through Riverbed Edge which manages those data source connections into Riverbed Data Store.

Each data source supported by Edge must be configured to communicate with an Edge instance for the data source to enter into the Riverbed Data Store. Each Edge can support multiple associated data sources.

Riverbed Edge VM Requirements

The basic Riverbed Edge VM requirements are:

  • a host VM supplied by the customer.

    • a host VM running the validated version of Ubuntu Linux.

    • a host VM that provides the following minimum resources:

      • RAM: 16GB,

      • vCPU: 4 cores

      • Storage: 300GB.

Riverbed Edge supports deployment on the following virtual machine environments: AWS (via AMI), Azure (via VHD), and VMware ESXi (via OVA).

Riverbed Edge
Requirement Type 		Riverbed Edge
Requirement Specifications 		Notes
VM image Ubuntu Linux v22.04 Supports deployment in the following environments:
AWS, Azure, and VMware ESXi
VM RAM resources 16G  
VM vCPU 4 cores  
VM storage 300GB  

To configure Riverbed Edge, refer to the relevant instructions for your VM type: