Archive for May, 2009

How to recover your load balancers to v6.6 via USB stick

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

The following instructions detail how to recover any Loadbalancer.org appliance to v6.6 via any USB stick 1 Gb or greater.

NB. This will only work on 64Bit hardware. All version 6 appliances are 64Bit. If you are running an older version this may still be possible depending on the hardware you are running on. (more…)

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How to upgrade VMware tools on ClusterLoad ESX or Loadbalancer.org VA

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

VMware tools are based on  proprietary modules for the Linux Kernel and therefore need compiling from source to install.

NB. Unless you have a specific reason to upgrade the supplied tools don’t worry about it. Our appliances make heavy use of the 64Bit e1000 network driver which is part of the default kernel, the appliance doesn’t strictly need any of the extra VMware tool functionality.

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