Introduction, Pre-requisites, Loadmaster for cisco c-series installation – KEMP Cisco C-Series User Manual

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LoadMaster for Cisco C-Series Installation

Installation Guide

1 Introduction

The KEMP LoadMaster load balancing solution is specifically optimized for the UCS C-Series Rack
Servers, enabling customers to deploy full-feature, high-performance load balancers. This can
reduce network design complexity as well as increased performance. Cisco UCS C-Series Rack
Servers deliver unified computing in an industry-standard form factor to reduce total cost of
ownership and increase agility. The KEMP solution is designed to handle load balancing for
application-to-application connections for external/internet based connections to web services.

This document describes the steps required to install the KEMP LoadMaster software on a Cisco
UCS C-Series Rack Server.

1.1

Pre-requisites

The following pre-requisites are required:

A Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Server.

An ISO image with the LoadMaster software.

The ISO image can be downloaded from

www.kemptechnologies.com/ucs.

For a standalone LoadMaster one IP-address on an untagged LAN is required. Three IP-
addresses are required for a HA pair.

The boot order on the C-Series Blade Server should be configured as follows:

1. HDD

2. CDROM

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