Note: The LoadMaster bare metal appliance is End-of-Sale (EoS) effective January 3rd, 2025. For existing customers, support for bare metal will continue till the End-of-Life (EoL) date. For further details, refer to the EOL Product Lifecycle Support Policy.

The 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, Progress Kemp’s LoadMaster for UCS offers unique value. The Progress 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 LoadMaster software on a Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server.

Note: PXE and USB booting options are also supported by the LoadMaster installation ISO file.