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Check out the F5 LB Provider for SCVMM 2012!
Hi Everyone!
System Center 2012 RC has been announced! Now that Microsoft has officially opened the launch window for System Center 2012, we would like to hear about your experience with the F5 ...
Has anyone else seen this issue? If so, read on for two helps:
After running the LB provider msi installer on W2K8 R2 SP1 64-bit, F5 does not appear in the list of available load balancers in VMM. Using the installer "repair" feature confirms the default install directory is \Windows\SysWOW64 and the LB provider files did, indeed install.
1. Please restart VMM (can be done from command line by stopping then restarting "VMMservice"
2. If the issue persists, you may try moving the LB provider folder and all the install files to windows\system32. Then create these to reg keys manually (obviously, be careful with modifiying the registry and do this on your test system first):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Server\Configuration Providers\{AE7C2456-E475-488C-A835-473115E5C13E}] "Description"="F5 Networks,Inc"
"LatestVersion"="3.0.0.0"
"Name"="F5 Networks,Inc"
"Publisher"="F5 Networks,Inc"
"Type"="LoadBalancer"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Server\Configuration Providers\{AE7C2456-E475-488C-A835-473115E5C13E}\3.0.0.0]
"Manufacturer"="F5 Networks,Inc"
"Model"="F5 Networks,Inc"
"Module"="F5DCMLoadBalancer"
"PublishDate"="8/19/2011"
Interested to know who is running into this and how these work arounds help. Thanks!
James Hendergart
Sr Business Development Manager, F5