The Progress Kemp Virtual LoadMaster is a version of the LoadMaster that runs as a virtual machine within a hypervisor and can provide all the features and functions of a hardware-based LoadMaster.

This document describes the installation of the Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) within a KVM environment.

There are several different versions of the VLM available. Full details of the currently supported versions are available on our website: www.kemptechnologies.com.

The KVM virtual machine guest environment for the VLM, at minimum, must include:

  • 4 GB RAM
  • 16 GB virtual hard disk capacity (sparse where possible)

There may be maximum configuration limits imposed by KVM such as maximum RAM per Virtual Machine (VM), Virtual NICs per VM, and so on. For further details regarding the configuration limits imposed by KVM, refer to the relevant KVM documentation.

The LoadMaster has been tested with Debian 6.0. For a full list of the compatible Linux distributions, refer to http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page

If you have any issues with the Virtual LoadMaster when using different Linux distributions, then contact Progress Kemp Support.