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=Intro= | =Intro= | ||
| − | Kemp Loadmaster "Free VLM" Appliance is available for free with some limitations | + | Kemp Loadmaster "Free VLM" Appliance is available for free with some limitations.<br> |
* [https://freeloadbalancer.com/ https://freeloadbalancer.com/] | * [https://freeloadbalancer.com/ https://freeloadbalancer.com/] | ||
It's a hardened Linux distribution based on HA-Proxy and some additional software.<br> | It's a hardened Linux distribution based on HA-Proxy and some additional software.<br> | ||
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=Convert the Image= | =Convert the Image= | ||
<pre> | <pre> | ||
| − | unzip Free-VLM-KVM-XEN.zip | + | $ unzip Free-VLM-KVM-XEN.zip |
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| + | $ tar vxfz LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.tar.gz | ||
| + | $ qemu-img convert -p -f raw -O qcow2 LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.disk LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.qcow2 | ||
| + | $ ls -lh LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.disk LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.qcow2 | ||
| + | -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 17G Apr 23 00:12 LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.disk | ||
| + | -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 171M Jun 9 12:03 LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.qcow2 | ||
| + | </pre> | ||
| + | Not bad for 60 seconds of work !!! :-) | ||
=Links= | =Links= | ||
* [https://kemptechnologies.com/server-load-balancing-appliances/product-matrix.html https://kemptechnologies.com/server-load-balancing-appliances/product-matrix.html] | * [https://kemptechnologies.com/server-load-balancing-appliances/product-matrix.html https://kemptechnologies.com/server-load-balancing-appliances/product-matrix.html] | ||
* [https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/qemu-img.html https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/qemu-img.html] | * [https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/qemu-img.html https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/qemu-img.html] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:17, 1 September 2020
1 Intro
Kemp Loadmaster "Free VLM" Appliance is available for free with some limitations.
It's a hardened Linux distribution based on HA-Proxy and some additional software.
The price is fair and it might be a good choice compared to "HA-Proxy Aloha" which does not offer such a "free edition VPS"
If you deploy to VMware, there is an optimized Image ready for download.
But if you decide to deploy to an opensource hypervisor, you get a raw image.
That means that you get a 17GB disk file with 171MB data in it!
2 Convert the Image
$ unzip Free-VLM-KVM-XEN.zip $ tar vxfz LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.tar.gz $ qemu-img convert -p -f raw -O qcow2 LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.disk LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.qcow2 $ ls -lh LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.disk LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.qcow2 -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 17G Apr 23 00:12 LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.disk -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 171M Jun 9 12:03 LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-Linux-KVM-XEN-FREE.qcow2
Not bad for 60 seconds of work !!! :-)
