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175 Replies Last post: Jun 10, 2009 5:39 AM by hicksj

Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance

Jun 5, 2006 12:32 AM

VMTN Admin 1,313 posts since
May 10, 2006 VMware

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/300

A tiny but mighty tcp load balancer

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 7, 2006 5:58 PM

CMT111 1 posts since
Jun 7, 2006

Will be very interested to know whether this appliance can also load balance the traffic to different IP address in a subnet (some kind of bandwidth control needed in every family when kids are competing for ADSL bandwidth for his/her own downloading's/peer to peer sharing)?

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 8, 2006 2:07 AM

in response to: CMT111

prabhakar 119 posts since
May 24, 2006

This appliance uses Pen for the load balancing. Pen doesnt have a bandwidth control or traffic shaping feature. Sorry !!

Thanks for trying it out ...

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 8, 2006 7:11 AM

Tom Steiner 2 posts since
Jun 8, 2006

Very interesting appliance. I am familair with Cisco's Load Director which costs serious money. This seems like a great alternative for smaller installations and setups and testing. good work

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 8, 2006 8:31 AM

in response to: Tom Steiner

prabhakar 119 posts since
May 24, 2006

Thanks for trying out hercules ...

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 8, 2006 3:46 PM

flame_ 15 posts since
Feb 28, 2006

good work on making the download so small. I notice you have a number of tiny single purpose VMs, but none of them seem to have a UI. If you're interested I would like to help you fix this.

check out the whiptail menus in my appliance http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/329 I think we could put together something similar for your appliances.

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 8, 2006 5:10 PM

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prabhakar 119 posts since
May 24, 2006

I saw that. I think we could put something together. I didnt use a UI because they are all so targeted to dev and server side. I spent a lot of time trying to get it to be a small download. Good work on the phplix appliance...

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 9, 2006 9:20 AM

amahfouz 9 posts since
Jun 9, 2006

Terrific concept. good work

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 9, 2006 1:46 PM

sweerana 4 posts since
Jun 9, 2006

Something different. Tiny and nice. Kind of getting tired of all the heavy duty large apps .

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 9, 2006 2:37 PM

Ravi Teja 3 posts since
Jun 9, 2006

This seems to be the smallest appliance in this list. Good work.

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 9, 2006 4:01 PM

larstr 2,363 posts since
Mar 11, 2004

Too bad it's using an ide disk. It won't run on esx server.

Lars

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 12, 2006 1:19 PM

tjevans 2 posts since
Jun 12, 2006

Nice appliance. We use HAProxy but this seems like a great fit for smaller installations.

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 21, 2006 1:58 PM

prabhakar 119 posts since
May 24, 2006

Here is an http download for those of you having problems with the torrents:

http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id185891325

Let me know if you have problems accessing it. Thanks ...

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 23, 2006 2:19 PM

prabhakar 119 posts since
May 24, 2006

Here is yet another http link, in case your fw is blocking traffic to orbitfiles:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170938&package_id=195195

Reply Re: Hercules Load Balancer Virtual Appliance Jun 26, 2006 9:32 AM

brelogue 1 posts since
Jun 26, 2006

WOW....good work and great documentation.....

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