This document describes the installation of Kemp 360 Central within a Xen, fully-virtualized environment.

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

Full virtualization provides total abstraction of the underlying physical system. No modification of the guest operating system (OS) or application is required. The guest OS or applications do not realize they are in a virtual environment.

Note: In tests, the Xen para-virtualized VM had much better performance levels than the Xen fully-virtualized VM.

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

A wide variety of Linux distributions can be used as the Dom0 operating system. For a full list of the compatible Linux distributions, refer to xenproject.org.

Kemp 360 Central has been tested with the following Dom0 operating systems and versions of Xen.org.

Dom0 OS Xen.org Version
Ubuntu 16.04.2 4.6.5

There are several versions of the Xen software and not all are officially supported by Kemp:

  • Kemp supports the version available from xenproject.org (note that the URL xen.org redirects to this website)
  • Kemp does not support the version available from xenserver.org

When deploying Kemp 360 Central, ensure you are using the version of Xen available from xenproject.org.

If you have any issues with the VM when using a different combination of Xen.org versions and Linux distributions as the Dom0, contact Kemp Support.