New Portal Release Expands Deployment Options, Manageability, and Compliance

Riverbed Portal redefines how companies visualize, monitor, report, and troubleshoot poor user experience. It combines user experience, application, and network data into a centralized, dynamic visibility solution. This holistic view provides operational teams with a single source of truth for observability data, allowing them to focus key resources on strategic projects, accelerate troubleshooting, and deliver meaningful data to stakeholders throughout the enterprise.

The latest release continues Portal’s evolution by enhancing its capabilities to address the needs of today’s complex enterprise environments.

New features in Riverbed Portal 3.13

Expanded hypervisor support

Portal now supports deployment on ESXi 8.0, ensuring compatibility with VMware’s latest hypervisor platform. It also runs natively in Hyper-V environments, allowing administrators to deploy Portal without relying on additional hypervisors, thereby expanding virtualization options.

Improved manageability and administration

Riverbed has simplified administrative tasks by introducing several new features:

• Administrators can now multi-select thresholds for more efficient deletion.
• The Custom Dashboard Template Management view includes a version number field for better template tracking.
• A new report feature displays dashboard access and usage statistics over specified time frames.
• The Resource Management view now shows the number of streaming elements per dashboard, with color-coded indicators and sorting capabilities.
• Another column in the Resource Management view displays the data sources used by each dashboard, enabling administrators to filter and view specific sources.
• Enhanced database performance analysis now overcomes the limitations of previous drill-down options.

Simplified deployment

Riverbed has made Portal easier to deploy by making it available on Azure Marketplace. Administrators can now adjust memory settings during the backup and restore process, streamlining the transition between servers or environments. New REST APIs simplify the scripting of updates and the distribution of Host Groups through Portal Central Manager. Additionally, Riverbed has improved integration between NETIM GMC Metrics and Portal by adding a searchable filter to the metrics display, eliminating the need to repeatedly click “show more” when managing large numbers of metrics.

Enhanced compliance

Portal now supports IPv6 compliance, building upon the approach taken by the NPM platform (AR11), and ensuring compatibility with the increasing usage of IPv6 networks.

This release equips Riverbed Portal to address the complex demands of modern, fully virtualized network environments. By delivering enhanced virtualization support, simplified management functionality, and streamlined deployment options, it meets the current needs of IT operations teams while anticipating future industry requirements.