The Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) is a version of the LoadMaster that runs as a Virtual Machine (VM) in a hypervisor and can provide all the features and functions of a hardware-based LoadMaster.

This document describes the installation of the VLM in a Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor Virtualization (AHV) environment. The VLM has been tested with Nutanix AHV and has been certified as Nutanix Ready.

Nutanix AHV is a license-free virtualization solution included with Acropolis that delivers enterprise virtualization ready for a multi-cloud world. With Acropolis and AHV, virtualization is tightly integrated into the Enterprise Cloud OS rather than being layered on as a standalone product that must be licensed, deployed, and managed separately. Common tasks such as deploying and protecting VMs are managed centrally through Nutanix Prism, rather than utilizing disparate products and policies in a piecemeal strategy.

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

For the latest supported Nutanix versions for LoadMaster, refer to the Progress Kemp page on the Nutanix website.

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

  • 2 x virtual processors
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 16 GB virtual hard disk capacity

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