http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/300
A tiny but mighty tcp load balancer
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)?
This appliance uses Pen for the load balancing. Pen doesnt have a bandwidth control or traffic shaping feature. Sorry !!
Thanks for trying it out ...
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
Thanks for trying out hercules ...
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.
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...
Terrific concept. good work
Something different. Tiny and nice. Kind of getting tired of all the heavy duty large apps .
This seems to be the smallest appliance in this list. Good work.
Too bad it's using an ide disk. It won't run on esx server.
Lars
Nice appliance. We use HAProxy but this seems like a great fit for smaller installations.
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 ...
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
WOW....good work and great documentation.....
Too bad it's using an ide disk. It won't run on esx
server.
Lars
I agree - Would it be easy to port it over to a SCSI Drive? I have had some trouble getting linux based VMs from IDE to scsi successfully.
CARLO.
it shouldnt be hard to switch to SCSI. I am planning on updating this vm. i will post the updated vm on SF and post here.
Here are the minimum requirements for the VM's kernel to work with SCSI (and networking)... Hope this helps
Device Drivers --->
Fusion MPT device support --->
<*> Fusion MPT (base + ScsiHost) drivers
OR
<*> Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for SPI \[kernel 2.6.x or better]
Device Drivers --->
SCSI device support --->
<*> SCSI device support
<*> SCSI disk support
SCSI low-level drivers --->
<*> SYM53C8XX Version 2 SCSI support
<*> BusLogic SCSI support
Device Drivers --->
Network Device support --->
Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --->
EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers
<*> AMD PCnet32 PCI support
Ethernet (1000Mbit) --->
Good job btw. I am also trying to learn how to use buildroot so I can make my own footprints, but am stumbling around in the dark. The only modifications I would make to Hercules would be to add vrrpd for redundant load balancers and also the scsi support, then I can test it out with ESX server.
thanks Matt. This would be a great start....