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 Load Balancer provider for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012. Our provider installs on a VMM server, enabling users to: Include basic load-balancing services as part of a VMM application service template within a private cloud Delegate these services to appropriate IT personell so that they can be included in an application service deployment Specify the min-max range of nodes allowed within a load-balancing pool Test connectivity and provider interfaces before launching a VM creation task Automatically configure BIG-IP to provide load-balancing to specified VMs when they are deployed. If this capability sounds interesting to you, please try it out and reply to this post to let us know what you think. Thank you! Click here to download the 1MB installer [ https://devcentral.f5.com/downloads/plugins/F5LoadBalancerPowerShellSetup.zip]. Take a look at this write-up on how to setup this provider: James Hendergart Business Development, F5 Networks

Hello Everyone! Here is an overview of all F5 integrations with System Center 2012: MP for SCOM LB provider for VMM SDK and PowerShell for direct integration with BIG-IP or via SCOrch. Thanks, James Hendergart F5 Networks

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

Im unable to download the installer from the provided link. Zip appears to be corrupted. Can a new file be placed out there? Thanks.

Hi Jon66. Thanks for the heads up. We're checking on it. Sorry for the inconvenience. We'll post updates here. James

FYI, I had to follow your subsequent instructions in order to get the provider to show up in SCVMM, it didn't show up after installing and then re-starting the VMM services and console.

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jameshendergart

Historic F5 Account

Jan 20, 2012

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 Load Balancer provider for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012.

Our provider installs on a VMM server, enabling users to:

Include basic load-balancing services as part of a VMM application service template within a private cloud
Delegate these services to appropriate IT personell so that they can be included in an application service deployment
Specify the min-max range of nodes allowed within a load-balancing pool
Test connectivity and provider interfaces before launching a VM creation task
Automatically configure BIG-IP to provide load-balancing to specified VMs when they are deployed.

If this capability sounds interesting to you, please try it out and reply to this post to let us know what you think.

Thank you!

Click here to download the 1MB installer [ https://devcentral.f5.com/downloads/plugins/F5LoadBalancerPowerShellSetup.zip].

Take a look at this write-up on how to setup this provider:

James Hendergart Business Development, F5 Networks

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Keif_R__Machado
Nimbostratus
Nov 19, 2014
Where can I get the most up to date version of this provider?
- HCYeoh_133134
  Nimbostratus
  Jan 17, 2017
  Hi Keif. Did you manage get the up to date version of F5 LB provider? Can you share with us where to get it? Thank you.
Robin_Mordasie1
Historic F5 Account
Mar 12, 2015
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