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 VMware hypervisor environment.

The Virtual LoadMaster is VMware ready.

The Virtual LoadMaster is supported and has been tested with:

  • VMware ESXi 5.5 through ESXi 8.

  • vCenter Server 5.5 through vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3c (7.0.3)

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

  • 2 x virtual CPUs (reserve 2 GHz)
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 16 GB disk space (sparse where possible)

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