Installing the Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance on QEMU/KVM

This chapter describes how to install the Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance on the QEMU Kernel Virtual Machine (QEMU/KVM) hypervisor.

The Traffic Manager virtual appliance is supported for production use on the QEMU/KVM hypervisor. The Traffic Manager is available on QEMU/KVM as a 64-bit version only.

For a full list of the supported platforms and versions, see the release notes included with your virtual appliance package.

To run the installation process, use either the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Graphical User Interface (GUI) tool or the command-line interface (CLI) provided by the "libvirt" software library. The VMM GUI is provided by "virt-manager" and the CLI is provided by "virt-install".

First obtain the appropriate virtual appliance package in ZIP archive format. Unpack this archive to your QEMU/KVM host prior to setting up the virtual machine.

The minimum resource requirements for the virtual appliance are:

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.