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LoadMaster for UCS Installation

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LoadMaster for

Cisco UCS

B-Series Blade

Servers

Installation Guide

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 5

1.1 Pre-requisites .......................................................................................................................... 5

2 Create Policies ................................................................................................................................. 6

2.1 Create a QoS Policy ................................................................................................................. 6

2.2 Create an Adapter Policy ........................................................................................................ 7

2.3 Create a LAN Connectivity Policy .......................................................................................... 10

2.4 Create a BIOS Policy .............................................................................................................. 12

3 Installing LoadMaster on the Cisco UCS Blade.............................................................................. 15

3.1 Open the KVM console for the B-series server ..................................................................... 15

3.2 Create a virtual CD-ROM ....................................................................................................... 16

3.3 Boot the Server ..................................................................................................................... 17

3.4 Install the LoadMaster .......................................................................................................... 18

3.5 Boot the Installed LoadMaster ............................................................................................. 18

3.6 Configure the LoadMaster .................................................................................................... 19

4 Configuring the LoadMaster via the KVM Console ....................................................................... 23

5 References .................................................................................................................................... 26

Document History ................................................................................................................................. 27

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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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2 Create Policies

A number of policies can be created in order to optimize LoadMaster performance. The sections below give instructions on how to create these policies in the Cisco Unified Computing System Manager.

2.1 Create a QoS Policy

Figure 2-1: QoS Policies

1. In the menu on the left, go to Policies > root > QoS Policies.

Figure 2-2: Add

2. Click the plus button on the right to create a new policy.

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Figure 2-3: QOS policy

3. Enter a Name.

4. Select Platinum as the Priority.

5. Enter 65535 in the Burst(Bytes) text box.

6. Enter 40000000 in the Rate(Kbps) text box.

7. Ensure that Host Control is set to none.

8. Click OK.

9. Click OK again.

2.2 Create an Adapter Policy

Figure 2-4: Servers

1. Select the Servers tab at the top.

2. Expand Policies.

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Figure 2-5: Adapter Policies

3. Expand root.

4. Select Adapter Policies.

Figure 2-6: Add Policy

5. Click the plus button on the right.

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Figure 2-7: Resources

6. In the Resources section, set the field values as follows: a) Transmit Queues: 1 b) Ring Size: 256 c) Receive Queues: 1 d) Ring Size: 512 e) Completion Queues: 2 f) Interrupts: 4

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