Gentlemen, I need your good help in helping resolve a silly issue that I am facing with the WAE-7341-K9 device for a client. The client has to DC that are connected via a 75Mbps link. They have two ISRs on either end that then connect to their respective core switches. The two WAE-7341 devices are connected to the core with WCCP as the interception method. At first the client informed me that they require some sort of acceleration for different application types from DC to DC. Based on that information, I configured the two appliances in AA mode. The two devices were registered with a WAVE-574 device as the CM. I started to see traffic hit the ACLs configured on the core switch and redirection taking place. I could start seeing pass-through traffic on the AAs. I then got busy with another project and decided to let the AAs build up their DRE database and assumed that after traffic is passed through the AAs there would be optimization eventually. Once I returned to check on the WAAS solution, I realised that the only traffic being sent through WAAS was "Storage" traffic. It was completely forwarded as pass-through which I can understand. The client later confirmed that they were replicating from once DC to the other DC due to a shift in their DR policy. Anyhow, from my understanding of deploying WAAS the current setup of AAs would be inaccurate since RA mode is required. I attempted to perform a "restore factory-default" command on the WAE-7341 devices with the hope that I could then have the option of putting the device in RA mode via the "setup" wizard. UNFORTUNATELY, this did not happen. I have a WAE-7341 device running OS version 4.4.1 but it does not show me RA mode option in its listed device modes. What do I do now??? I would appreciate if someone can guide me as to what I may have done wrong or have missed or if there is something pending that needs to be done. The way I see it, I should have this option available to reconfigure the device in RA mode. So this does not make any sense. Alternately, I could still configure AA mode but disable all features except TFO. However, that will not allow me to have fast DRE and PLZ options that are part of the RA mode. Maybe, if someone can guide me through this way, then I could solve the problem. Kindly help. I am stuck. ... View more

Hi, I am currently designing and implementing a WAAS solution for s client in their Data Center. It is deployment of a single Accelerator and one CM. It has been decided that the WAAS accelerator (7341) will have its two NICs connected to two of their core switches (both 6500). The two core switches have a Layer 3 Etherchannel link between them and are running OSPF for network convergence (i.e. Layer 2 connectivity is not used). I am facing a problem in the design, since I know that the Active/Standby configuration for the accelerator would require a redundant gateway via HSRP (at least) but this is not possible in a routed environment in the core switches. Furthermore, I am to run WCCPv2 for redirection. Therefore, I am confused as to how to proceed in such a case considering that I can only configure one default gateway on the accelerator when I need high availability on two different subnets. Please assist at your earliest. Thanks. ... View more