Load balancing solution on virtual machines

[AllBlack]

Hi,

We need to implement a load balancing solution for a certain service.

Does anyone have experience with running load balancers such as Zeus, LVS, etc in a virtual environment?

We'd like to get an enterprise LB solution in place. One that serves are all needs.

The vendor of theis specific service seemed to think virtualizing load balancers was not a great idea.

Any thoughts?

[azn2kew]

You can use NLB for virtual machines in Windows. Here's a guide how to implement them.

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/implmenting_ms_network_load_balancing.pdf

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Stefan Nguyen

iGeek Systems Inc.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

[azn2kew]

Have you think of using load balancer appliance? Try using Hercules Load Balancer appliance on vmware.com as well.

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Stefan Nguyen

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[malaysiavm]

what about F5 load balancer? BIG IP and 3DNS?

Malaysia VMware Communities -

[ChrisDearden]

We use F5's for all our load balencing , but it would be nice if they did a virtual appliance in the same way as the cisco nexus 1000v

[Jasemccarty]

I also did a write up (focusing on VDI) using Crossroads.

http://www.jasemccarty.com/blog/2007/08/free-load-balancer-possible-connection.html

XR is an open source service that you can put on many *nix platforms.

It would also handle the load balancing requirement you seek.

Jase McCarty

http://www.jasemccarty.com

Co-Author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center

(ISBN:1420070274) from Auerbach

[Texiwill]

Hello,

I have virtualized LVS in the past but I have not done anything with it in a very long time. Seemed to work fine for the task.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

SearchVMware Blog: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/

Blue Gears Blogs - http://www.itworld.com/ and http://www.networkworld.com/community/haletky

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[AllBlack]

This looks interesting. However I can't seem to download it.

No link on the page you supplied and this link in the marketplace does not get me anywhere

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/scripts/va-stats/appliance-redirect.php?nid=300&target=#1