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Installation and Upgrade Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3
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Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace
Web Conferencing Release 5.3 in a Load
Balancing Configuration
This chapter describes how to install Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing in a load balancing
configuration. It does not describe upgrades. For upgrade instructions, see
Chapter 5, “Upgrading to
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3.”
Topics in this section include:
• About Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3 in a Load Balancing
Configuration, page 4-1
• About Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3 in a Load Balancing
Configuration for Video-Enabled Systems, page 4-6
• Preinstallation Tasks: Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3 in a Load
Balancing Configuration, page 4-8
• Installation Tasks: Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3 in a Load Balancing
Configuration, page 4-11
• Postinstallation Tasks: Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3 in a Load
Balancing Configuration, page 4-20
Note Before reviewing this chapter, make sure that you read the Release Notes for Cisco
Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3 for updated system requirements. New
installations of Release 5.3 require a Cisco MCS.
About Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing
Release 5.3 in a Load Balancing Configuration
Load balancing in Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing makes use of an algorithmic formula
to evenly distribute web-conferencing requests within clusters of web servers. Updates occur every 60
seconds by default and recalculate current server load and current web-conferencing load.