This is a guide on installing Kemp Load Balancer on Proxmox VE.
- Open your instance of Proxmox and login
- Click on the node you wish to add the Kemp Load Balancer VM to
- Navigate to the Shell
- Begin by entering
wget https://kemptechnologies.com/files/packages/current/Free-VLM-VMware-OVF-64bit.zip
and press enter - Then unzip the downloaded:
unzip Free-VLM-VMware-OVF-64bit.zip
- There will be a few different files unzipped
- Now unzip the
LoadMaster-VLM-[VERSION].RELEASE-VMware-OVF-FREE.zip
file.- In my case it was VERSION
7.2.50.0.187
resulting in the the following codeunzip Free-VLM-VMware-OVF-64bit/LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-VMware-OVF-FREE.zip
- In my case it was VERSION
- Now you we want to add the .ovf file into your list of VM's using the following line of code.
qm importovf [ID] LoadMaster-VLM-[VERSION].RELEASE-VMware-VBox-OVF-FREE.ovf [SERVER]
- I set my ID to
107
and choselocal
as the SERVER for the following codeqm importovf 107 LoadMaster-VLM-7.2.50.0.18765.RELEASE-VMware-VBox-OVF-FREE.ovf local
- I set my ID to
Before launching the VM go into the Hardware tab and change the SCSI Controller to VMware PVSCSI
*You may also want to double check that Start at Boot is enabled under the VM Options.
That's it! You've successfully imported the Kemp Load Balancer into Proxmox and you can now start it and begin configuring it. NetworkChuck has a great walkthrough on this over on Youtube. Check it out Here.