Overview

Application profiles are used to define the properties of an applications VS and at least one VS must be defined in a profile. Deployment-specific properties such as IP addresses and certificates are not contained in the profile but instead are provided at deployment.

Note: You can have up to a maximum of 64 Virtual Services (any combination of Virtual Services and SubVSs) in an application profile.

When updates are made to an application profile, no changes are made to the LoadMaster estate. The profile must be deployed to update the LoadMaster configuration.

You can deploy application profiles to any LoadMaster under management by Kemp 360 Central. When deploying, you can select the target LoadMaster from the drop-down list or you can create a new LoadMaster instance. When creating a new LoadMaster instance as part of an application profile deployment, the system waits until the newly created LoadMaster is contactable before proceeding with deployment.

You can deploy a newly-defined LoadMaster automatically to VMware and KVM environments or manually to any supported platform or cloud.

When deploying a previously deployed application profile (regardless of version), they system will (where possible) auto-populate the application settings from the last successful deployment.

You can roll back deployed application profiles to a previously deployed version by selection any prior deployment and selecting redeploy.

Version Management

Application profiles are assigned version numbers in a major.minor format. Minor versions are used when developing and testing a profile and are created by ‘Saving’ the profile. To create a new major version, ‘commit’ the profile and the new version will be available for deployment. You can revert to an older major version of an existing profile by going to the ACTIONS column and selecting Versions. Locate the version you want to restore and click Restore.

Note: You can have as many major versions as you want but you are only allowed one minor version for each profile. You cannot deploy minor versions; only major versions can be deployed.