Planning for network deployment configuration

Decisions to be made

While you read the Deployment Guide, you made decisions about deploying your NetCache appliance as a news cache on your network. Some of the deployment decisions you made require configuration using the Appliance Manager or the NetCache CLI.

The following table lists deployment decisions that require configuration, and it provides the location of information to help you plan how to configure the features that you want to implement.

If you want to...	See...
Deploy the appliance as a transparent cache with an L4 or L7 switch or a WCCP 2.0-based router	The transparent proxying chapter in the Administration Guide
Deploy the appliance with a firewall or with no firewall	The hierarchy chapter in the Administration Guide
Implement a load balancing strategy across multiple news caches	The transparent proxying chapter in the Administration Guide
Use IP takeover pairs to enable one appliance to take over services for another if one fails	The takeover chapter in the Administration Guide