Radware Alteon Installation and Maintenance Guide
Initial Configuration
Document ID: RDWR-ALOS-V2815_IG0203
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Alteon VX — This is an ADC hypervisor that enables the use of multiple vADCs on top of
dedicated, specialized Alteon ADC hardware.
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VMware — The VMware virtual infrastructure enables sharing physical resources of multiple
machines across the entire infrastructure including hypervisors, resource management, and
provisioning.
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KVM — Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). This is a virtualization infrastructure for the
Linux kernel. KVM supports native virtualization on processors with hardware virtualization
extensions.
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Open Xen — Xen is a paravirtualization tool that lets you to run multiple virtual machines on
one physical machine. It is available on a wide number of platforms.
Alteon VA for VMware Installation and Configuration
To set up Alteon VA for VMware, you must first obtain the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) package
for Alteon VA provided by Radware to be used by VMware vSphere Client 4.0, 4.1. or 5.0.
Installation Prerequisites
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Fully functioning VMware infrastructure, including:
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An ESX server
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An installed vSphere client
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OVF/OVA package from Radware
Notes
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The Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an open standard for packaging and
distributing virtual appliances or more generally software to be run on virtual machines.
The OVF standard is not tied to any particular hypervisor or processor architecture. The
unit of packaging and distribution is called an OVF Package which may contain one or
more virtual systems each of which can be deployed to a virtual machine. An OVF
package consists of several files, placed in one directory.
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The OVA (Open Virtualization Appliance) is a one-file alternative package, a TAR file
with the OVF directory inside. So if you want to share your VM on the internet you can
create a single OVA file (just like a zip file). To consume the file, you have to convert it
first to OVF (just like you unzip a file before you use it).
