Installing the Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance on Microsoft Hyper-V

This chapter describes how to install the Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance on the Microsoft Hyper-V platform.

The Traffic Manager virtual appliance is supported for production use on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, running on the Window Server platform. The Traffic Manager is available on Hyper-V as a 64-bit version only.

Refer to the release notes included with your virtual appliance package for a full list of the supported platforms and versions.

The virtual appliance software is provided as a ZIP archive file. This file contains a VHD disk image file suitable for use within a Hyper-V environment. The software can be installed and configured through the Hyper-V Manager component in the Server Manager application.

The minimum resource requirements for the virtual appliance are:

The Traffic Manager uses a dynamically expanding virtual hard disk format. A freshly installed appliance starts with a minimal disk size and expands automatically with usage up to the defined maximum allocation shown above. Such usage includes stored configuration and log file entries. Should you reach this maximum, it is possible to increase the disk size through tools provided in the Hyper-V manager. For more details, see Expanding the Log File Partition .

ATTENTION A newly-created, but un-configured, Traffic Manager virtual appliance can be vulnerable to hijacking or malicious use if not deployed in a secure environment. For pre-deployment security considerations, see Network Architecture.