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LoadMaster for UCS Installation
Guide for LoadMaster for UCS
Installation
1 Introduction
The KEMP LoadMaster load balancing solution is specifically optimized for the UCS B-series
blades, enabling customers to deploy full-feature, high-performance load balancers. This can
reduce network design complexity as well as increase performance through the direct access to
the virtual networking fabric. Easily deployed on UCS Blades as a bare metal solution, KEMP’s
LoadMaster for UCS offers unique value. The KEMP solution is designed to handle load balancing
for application-to-application connections or at the edge for external/internet based
connections to web services.
Depending on the license, the LoadMaster will support 6, 16 or 32 cores. If hyper-threading is
present and enabled the number of supported cores is doubled. This document describes the
steps required to install the KEMP LoadMaster software on a Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server.
1.1 Pre-requisites
The following pre-requisites are required:
A Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server.
An ISO image with the LoadMaster software.
For a standalone LoadMaster one IP-address on an untagged LAN is required. Three IP-
addresses are required for a HA pair.
The local disk on the Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server should be empty as it will be re-
partitioned during the installation of the LoadMaster software.
The boot order on the B-Series Blade Server should be configured as follows:
1. Local Disk
2. CD_ROM
The boot order can be checked and configured within the Boot Order Details section on the
General tab of the Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) Manager.
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