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 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 Progress 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 LoadMaster software on a Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Server.

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