New Vyatta Appliance!

This is the most up to version of the VC6.0 release (June 01, 2010)
with VMware tools installed and ready to go.

Here is the download from VMware:
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/383813

and the direct link:
here

Vyatta VC 6 - Final with VMware Tools Included

Hi Everyone,

Vyatta Released VC 6.0 late last month and although it did include OpenVM-tools which is great, there are a few people out there (myself included) who really want a VM to come already included with VMware tools and VMxnet3 especially performance matters at all to you :)

Sorry for the delay in getting this out, however compiling VMware tools for the Vyatta 2.6.31 custom kernel was not as easy as I had planned.

Here is the listing with VMware:
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/383813

and here is the direct link:
VyattaVC6-Final.zip

And once you have downloaded it, why not give one of my labs ago here


Enjoy!

Load Balancing with Vyatta VC 6

Here is a diagram of the setup, we are dealing with the router to the far left of the diagram "R10" : diagram

This is the video of me configuring load balancing and testing it:

Vyatta Load Balancing from Richard Vimeo on Vimeo.

Here is the configuration:
Setting up the interfaces:
R10:

interfaces {
ethernet eth0 {
address 10.0.0.27/24
description ISP1
}
ethernet eth1 {
address 192.168.0.181/24
description ISP2
}
ethernet eth2 {
address 10.0.10.10/24
description R10TOR1
}
loopback lo {
address 10.10.10.10/32
}

Setting up the IGP:

protocols {
ospf {
area 10 {
network 10.0.10.0/24
network 10.10.10.10/32
}
default-information {
originate {
always
metric-type 2
}
}
}



Setting up Load Balancing

static {
route 0.0.0.0/0 {
next-hop 10.0.0.126 {
}
next-hop 192.168.0.1 {
}
}
}

load-balancing {
wan {
flush-connections
interface-health eth0 {
failure-count 2
nexthop 10.0.0.126
success-count 1
test 10 {
ping
resp-time 5
target 192.168.0.1
}
}
interface-health eth1 {
failure-count 2
nexthop 192.168.0.1
success-count 1
test 10 {
ping
resp-time 5
target 192.168.0.1
}
}
rule 10 {
inbound-interface eth2
interface eth0 {
weight 1
}
interface eth1 {
weight 1
}
protocol all
}
}
}




Good luck and Enjoy!