The purpose of this document is to follow up with “How to install a Silver Peak VX-Xpress on VMware ESXi”.

How to perform basic configuration on a fresh installation of VX-Xpress. The chosen Setup is in Router

Mode, because I do not want to interrupt other scenarios by placing VX-Xpress In-Line.

To better understand my test lab, I’ve added a slightly modified scenario to support that Silver Peak point-

to-point configuration.

After you have successfully added the VX-Xpress onto VMWare system and started up the appliance, you

should start with the initial configuration.

• Default Username: admin

• Default Password: admin

• Enable Password: (none)

Configure Silver Peak VX-Xpress in Router Mode

created by: Rainer Bemsel – Version 1.0 – Dated: NOV/05/2011

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To discover MGMT0’s IP address, enter the following:

silverpeak-ed4663# show interfaces mgmt0 [ENTER]

The console displays the MGMT0 IP address and netmask. This IP Address (192.168.10.4) has been given by

DHCP.

NOTE: To get to the login prompt from this point, enter q for quit, or hit the spacebar to continue paging

through the returned information.

As I want to use a static IP Address, I’m going to configure via CLI

In my drawing there are following values being assigned

• MGMT0 = 192.168.10.85/24

• Default gateway is 192.168.10.81

To configure MGMT0, enter the following command sequence:

silverpeak-ed4663# config t

silverpeak-ed4663 (config)# interface mgmt0 shutdown

silverpeak-ed4663 (config)# no interface mgmt0 dhcp

silverpeak-ed4663 (config)# interface mgmt0 ip address 10.0.47.142 /24

silverpeak-ed4663 (config)# no interface mgmt0 shutdown

silverpeak-ed4663 (config)# ip default-gateway 10.0.47.110

silverpeak-ed4663 (config)# show interfaces mgmt0

silverpeak-ed4663 (config)# show ip default-gateway

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Open a web browser with the new IP Address, like http://192.168.10.85

• Default Username: admin

• Default Password: admin

You will be prompted with the Configuration Wizard

Click on Next

Note: If you Skip Wizard, you can access through Menu Bar, under Administration

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Enter a new Hostname, if you like and add an optional DNS Server

Click on Next

Change the Time Zone, add NTP Server or select Manual Settings. I prefer NTP Server, because of

Network Management, Logging and Reporting

Click on Next

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Select Router ( Out-of-Path) Deployment, because we only want specific traffic going through the tunnel.

This can be accomplished by:

a) WCCP if you have a router or other device, like PacketShaper which supports that feature

b) Configure a Client’s default Gateway address to point to Silver Peak

c) Policy based Routing, would be another choice

Click on Next

That’s pretty much everything to set up the appliance for basic acceleration.

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Click on Apply

After that, you are ready to setup up another appliance at the branch office.