Hi Ilya I might of not been specific enough in my original email, I want to use the Kemps as load balancers/ssl termination for the VMs and not for the Cloudstack system. Yes, it would be great to have them integrated into Cloudstack like the Netscallers and F5 but I don't have the time and resource to consider using my java development team to write a plugin at this stage.
My plan based on my Openstack scenario, is the Kemps which are clustered have VIPs set tot he front end web servers which are running on VMs inside the cloud. My setup is 2 management servers which would be running mariadb cluster and two KVM hosts and a Dell EQLX SAN for running the VMs [to replicate the 'running VMs from SAN - block storage' in Openstack. Is this workable and is there any potential issues with this setup? regards Ian Regards Ian On 20 June 2014 04:10, ilya musayev <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian > > Welcome to CloudStack user mailing list, > > To be honest, I've not heard of Kemp, but did research just now and it > sounds interesting. > > As it stands, there isn't anything that i'm aware of that will work with > Kemp and CloudStack natively. We have typical LB vendors like Citrix > NetScaler, BigIP F5, Brocades and plenty of other providers, but nothing > that would do load balancing with Kemp yet. There were talks of using nginx > as LB as well, not certain how far it got. > > Perhaps you can try dev mailing list to see if anyone has any experience > or plans on supporting it. Alternatively, you can place a feature request, > but if demand is low, it will have the least priority. What generally > happens as well - is vendor writting support for CloudStack and donating it > to Apache Software Foundation. This is usually driven by demand from the > customers. > > What many other companies do, is use their own dashboard with cloudstack > engine behind the scenes, this way they can also tie in custom solutions > including something like Kemp LB or any other technology. > > Last but not least you can contract someone to write a support for it, you > can choose to donate it or not - but it would mean you have to continuously > maintain the code base on your own, if you were to upgrade to the next > version. > > Regards > ilya > > PS: most of the folks who are now using CloudStack initially tried > OpenStack and for obvious reasons you've mentioned - made the right choice. > > > On 6/19/14, 11:40 AM, Ian Marshall wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Can I use Kemp LM2600 for load balancing VMs in cloudstack. >> >> I was looking to install Openstack but struggling so want to try >> cloudstack >> but have these LBs as I require SSL offloading. >> >> Regards >> Ian >> >> >
