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Reading Time: 4 minutesAs written in the previous post, the management web interface is build around at the load balancer features. But most terms and concepts are the same of other solutions and at least we have: Virtual Services (VS): a virtual IP or VIP (or a pair of IP and port) for a specific virtual service that will me managed by the load balancer Real Servers (RS): the servers (physical or virtual) that hosts the services Forwarding methods: how packets are delivered to the real servers. VLM support NAT or Direct Server Route (DSR) al L4 and […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesKEMP Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) is available in three format: one for Microsoft Hyper-V (just a zip with all the required files) and two for VMware (one for vSphere and one for Workstation format). All are quite small (less than 40MB), so really fast to download and deploy. I have tried the the vSphere version that is just a compressed file with a folder including an OFV and a VMDK file. Really simple to deploy as most of the virtual appliances (maybe a single file could be more simple). The Step 1 is get the software […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesKEMP’s LoadMaster family of affordable, yet feature rich application delivery controllers and server load balancer appliances automatically and intelligently manage user traffic and applications, to deliver website integrity for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB) and managed service providers. KEMP LoadMaster is an hardened Linux appliance that provide several features: Server Load Balancing for TCP/UDP based protocols NAT-based forwarding or Direct Server Return (DSR) configurations Layers 4-7 Load Balancing Layer 7 Content Switching Server Persistence Windows Terminal Services load balancing and persistence with Session Directory integration SSL Termination/Offload/Acceleration Application Front-end (Caching, Compression and IPS security) Advanced, App-Transparent […]