Having discussed a basic setup in our last part of our “cookbook” series, this time we want to look at some details. We will do this using a checklist with explanations.

The topics:

More than 95% of our customers use the LoadMaster in pairs. This is quite obvious, especially if it’s not only all about performance and scalability, but also about availability when the LoadMaster should not be a “Single Point of Failure”. This combination of two load balancers is usually referred to as HA-Setup (HA = High Availability).

Default settings

The default setting for this example is the system I have described in the previous “cookbook” article.

Who likes reading manuals...? 

Here are 3 simple examples to make installation work with the new LoadBalancer:

• Load Balancing for Web servers
• Load Balancing with SSL-Offloading (SSL acceleration) for SSL-web server
• Load Balancing for Windows Terminal Server.

You can of course try all this with the free LoadBalancer using VMware / Hyper-V. http://www.kemptechnologies.com/try

Here is the long promised part of the “Cookbook” Series which explains the easy steps to a LoadBalancer setup. This article particularly applies to test users: The installation and activation of a LoadBalancer virtual application as a packet in Hyper-V or VMware. Let’s start: 

Decision for a virtualisation Platform

The VLM is currently available for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. Which one should you take? It doesn’t really matter as the appearance will be the same.  So feel free to make the decision on your personal preferences.