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VLM for VMware Workstation and Player
Installation Guide
1 Introduction
The KEMP Virtual LoadMaster is a version of the KEMP LoadMaster that runs as a virtual
machine within a hypervisor and can provide all the features and functions of a hardware-based
LoadMaster.
Figure 1-1: VMware Ready
This document describes the installation of the Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) within a VMware
Workstation and VMware Player hosted hypervisor environment.
Note: As of June 30th, 2011 the VLM is no longer supported by KEMP on VMware Server, since
VMware Server is no longer supported by VMware.
The VLM has been tested with VMware Workstation 4.0 and above and VMware Player 8.0 and
above.
There are several different versions of the VLM available. Full details of the currently supported
versions are available on our website:
The VMware virtual machine guest environment for the VLM, at minimum, must include:
2 x virtual CPUs (reserve 2 GHz)
1 GB RAM
32GB disk space
There may be maximum configuration limits imposed by VMware such as maximum RAM per
VM, Virtual NICs per VM etc. For further details regarding the configuration limits imposed by
VMware, please refer to the relevant VMware documentation.