# Can I run HAProxy as a virtual appliance on VMware?

We run much of our infrastructure on VMware and would prefer something that fits into that environment
cleanly. Is there a supported virtual appliance, and what does deployment and ongoing management look like?

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- Posted at: 6 days ago
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## Comments
### Comment 1

Yes. The HAProxy ALOHA virtual load balancer ships as a pre-packaged image with native support for VMware, alongside Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM. You deploy it on the hypervisor you already run and route production traffic from the same environment as the rest of your stack, with no appliance to rack and no procurement wait. Since it runs as a standard VM, it slots into your existing operations: you can snapshot or roll it back like any other virtual machine, and scale or relocate it without touching physical hardware. It carries the full Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing of the HAProxy ALOHA line, and PacketShield DDoS filtering is included as well, since it works at the Linux kernel level. The difference is performance: without the dedicated hardware NIC, PacketShield on a VM will not always reach line rate, which is where the ALOHA hardware load balancer comes in.
Learn more:
HAProxy ALOHA virtual load balancer - https://www.haproxy.com/products/haproxy-aloha-virtual-load-balancer
HAProxy ALOHA hardware load balancer - https://www.haproxy.com/products/haproxy-aloha

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- Posted at: 5 days ago




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