Citrix SD-WAN Platforms

Citrix SD-WAN 4000 SE

The SD-WAN 4000 is a 2U appliances. Each model has two 6-core processors for a total of 12 physical cores (24 cores with hyper-threading), and 48 GB (GB) of memory. The SD-WAN 4000 SE has a bandwidth of 300 Mbps, 500 Mbps, 1 Gbps, and 2 Gbps respectively.

The following figures shows the front panel of the SD-WAN 4000 SE appliance.

Figure 1.SD-WAN 4000 SE, front panel

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The Citrix SD-WAN 4000 SE appliances have the following ports:

  • 10/100Base-T copper Ethernet Port (RJ45), also called LOM port. You can use this port to remotely monitor and manage the appliance independently of the appliance’s software.

    Note: The LEDs on the LOM port are not operational by design.

  • RS232 serial console port.
  • Two 10/100/1000Base-T copper Ethernet management ports (RJ45). These ports are used to connect directly to the appliance for system administration functions.
  • Network Ports
    • SD-WAN 4000 SE (without FTW cards). Eight 1G SFP ports and four 10G SFP+ ports.
    • SD-WAN 4000 SE (with FTW cards). Eight 1G copper Ethernet ports and four 10G ports.

The following figure shows the back panel of the SD-WAN 4000 SE appliance.

Figure 2. SD-WAN 4000 SE, back panel

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The following components are visible on the back panel of the 4000 SE appliance:

  • Four 600 GB removable solid-state drives. The 256 GB solid-state drive below the hard disk drive stores the appliance’s software. Newer editions of 4000-SE have 800 GB removable SSD and 240 GB SSD.
  • USB port (reserved for a future release).
  • A 1 TB removable hard disk drive.
  • Power switch, which turns off power to the appliance, as if you were to unplug the power supply. Press the switch for five seconds to turn off the power.
  • Disable alarm button. Press this button to stop the power alarm from sounding when you have plugged the appliance into only one power outlet or when one power supply is malfunctioning and you want to continue operating the appliance until it is repaired.
  • Dual power supplies (either AC or DC), each rated at 850 watts, 100–240 volts.
Citrix SD-WAN 4000 SE

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