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Cisco Wide Area Application Services Configuration Guide

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Chapter 1 Configuring Virtual Blades

Preparing to Use Virtual Blades

Note This procedure applies only to WAE-674 devices. Virtual blades are always enabled on WAVE platforms.

You cannot disable a virtual blade on a WAVE device.

Before you configure and enable a virtual blade on your WAE-674 device, follow these steps:

Step 1 Ensure that the Virtual-Blade license is installed on the device. For more information, see the “Managing

Software Licenses” section on page 1-3.

Step 2 From the WAAS Central Manager menu, choose Devices > device-name.

Note You can enable and configure virtual blades only on application accelerators, not on Central

Manager devices or ANCs, and only on individual WAAS devices. You cannot configure virtual

blades on device groups.

Step 3 Choose Admin > Virtualization > General Settings. The General Settings window appears.

Step 4 Check Enable Virtualization to enable virtualization.

Note If virtualization is enabled, it can be disabled only by reinstalling WAAS using the recovery CD.

Step 5 Click Submit.

You are prompted to confirm that you want to modify general settings. Doing so will reboot the WAE.

After the reboot, the WAE will have a disk partition and other resources reserved for virtual blade use.

Note You will not be able to undo this change unless you restore the WAE from the Recovery CD.

Note When you configure a virtual blade on your WAE device, system resources are reserved for the

virtual blade. These resources are not available to your WAAS system, even if the virtual blade

is not active. This can affect the performance of your WAAS system.

Step 6 Click OK. The WAE restarts.

Step 7 Locate the disk or image of the operating system that you want to run on the virtual blade. Make sure

that you either have the CD-ROM available, or that you have copied the disk image to the WAE hard

drive. See the “Copying a Disk Image to a Virtual Blade” section on page 1-10.

To enable virtualization with the WAAS CLI, use the virtual-blade global configuration command.