LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation LoadMaster for Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers Installation Guide VERSION: 1.8 UPDATED: MARCH 2014 Copyright © 2002 - 2014 KEMP Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation Table of Contents 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 2 3 Pre-requisites .......................................................................................................................... 5 Create Policies ..................................................................................
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 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.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 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.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation Figure 2-3: QOS policy 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 2.2 Enter a Name. Select Platinum as the Priority. Enter 65535 in the Burst(Bytes) text box. Enter 40000000 in the Rate(Kbps) text box. Ensure that Host Control is set to none. Click OK. Click OK again. Create an Adapter Policy Figure 2-4: Servers 1. Select the Servers tab at the top. 2. Expand Policies. Copyright © 2002 - 2014 KEMP Technologies, Inc.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 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. Copyright © 2002 - 2014 KEMP Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 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 Copyright © 2002 - 2014 KEMP Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation Figure 2-8: Policy Options 7. In the Options section, select Enabled for the following options: a) Transmit Checksum Offload b) Receive Checksum Offload c) TCP Segmentation Offload d) TCP Large Receive Offload 8. Select Disabled for Receive Side Scaling (RSS). 9. Enter 5 in the Failback Timeout (Seconds) text box. 10. Select MSI X as the Interrupt Mode. 11. Select Min as the Interrupt Coalescing Type. 12.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 4. Select LAN Connectivity Policies. Figure 2-9: Create 5. Click the plus button on the right to create a new policy. Figure 2-10: Create LAN Connectivity Policy 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Enter a recognizable Name, for example LM_4vNIC. Enter a Description. Click Add to specify a vNIC. Enter a Name for the vNIC, for example eth 0. Select the relevant option in the MAC Address Assignment drop-down list.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 2.4 Expand the Operational Parameters section. Select the relevant Adapter Policy. Select the relevant QoS Policy. Click OK. Click OK again. Add the remaining vNICs needed. Create a BIOS Policy To create a BIOS policy: 1. Select the Servers tab at the top. 2. Expand Policies. 3. Expand root. 4. Select BIOS Policies. Figure 2-11: Create 5. Click the plus button to create a new policy.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation Figure 2-13: Advanced Processor options 8.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation Figure 2-14: Advanced Intel Directed IO options 9. In the Advanced > Intel Directed IO tab, set all of the options to Platform Default. Figure 2-15: RAS Memory 10. In the Advanced > RAS Memory tab, set the options as follows: a) Memory RAS Config: maximum-performance b) NUMA: enabled c) LV DDR Mode: performance-mode 11. Click OK. Copyright © 2002 - 2014 KEMP Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 3 Installing LoadMaster on the Cisco UCS Blade The following steps must be completed in order to install the LoadMaster software on the Cisco B-Series Blade Server. These steps must be completed on the jump host, where the LoadMaster installation ISO image is located. 3.1 1. 2. 3. 4. Open the KVM console for the B-series server Select the Servers tab in the navigation pane.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 3.2 Create a virtual CD-ROM In the KVM console window complete the following steps: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Select the Virtual Media tab. Click the Add Image button to open a file-selector window. Select the LoadMaster installation image Click the Open button. Click the Mapped button. The Virtual Media tab of the KVM console should now correspond with Figure 3-2.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 3.3 Boot the Server The server is now ready to be booted to complete the installation procedure. If the local disk is empty, that is contains no valid boot partition, simply click the Boot Server option on the KVM console. The server is booted from the previously mapped virtual CD.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 3.4 Install the LoadMaster Once the server boots from the virtual CD, as described in Section 0, the LoadMaster installation process automatically begins. The serial number will be automatically populated. Press OK. The installation then completes as shown in Figure 3-5 Figure 3-5 Installation Complete 3.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation Figure 3-6: Finished booting The LoadMaster should obtain an IP address via DHCP, please note this value. If the LoadMaster does not obtain an IP address via DHCP then the LoadMaster must be manually configured using the KVM console once the license key has been obtained. Please refer to Section 4 for further information regarding manually configuring the LoadMaster. 3.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation Figure 3-7: License Required 4. If using the Online licensing method, fill out the fields and click License Now. If you are starting with a trial license, there is no need to enter an Order ID. If you are starting with a permanent license, enter the KEMP Order ID# if this was provided to you.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation Figure 3-9 Temporary license warning Click the OK button 12. You should now connect to the Appliance Vitals screen of the LoadMaster. Figure 3-10 Appliance Vitals screen 13. Click the System Configuration menu option. 14. Click the eth0 menu option within the Interfaces section. Figure 3-11 Network Interface screen 15.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 20. Click on the Local DNS Configuration > Hostname Configuration menu option. Figure 3-12 Set Hostname screen 21. In the Hostname configuration screen, enter the hostname into the Current Hostname input field. 22. Click on the Set Hostname button. 23. Click on the Local DNS Configuration > DNS Configuration menu option. Figure 3-13 DNS configuration screen 24.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 4 Configuring the LoadMaster via the KVM Console If the LoadMaster does not automatically obtain an IP address using DHCP as described in Step 4, Section 3.6, or if the user prefers to configure the LoadMaster via the KVM console, then the following configuration steps must be completed before starting the LoadMaster. 1.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation This interface can be configured at a later date using the LoadMaster WUI if preferred 14. Click OK. 15. Enter the IP address of the default gateway in the input field of the Default Gateway dialog box. This value must be configured from within the KVM console 16. Click OK. Figure 4-2 Default Gateway 17. Click Yes within the Reboot screen when requested. Figure 4-3 Reboot 18.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation Figure 4-4 Appliance Vitals screen The LoadMaster is now fully installed and ready to be used. For further information on how to configure and implement the Virtual LoadMaster, please refer to the LoadMaster documentation which can be downloaded from the http://www.KEMPtechnologies.com/documentation page. Copyright © 2002 - 2014 KEMP Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation 5 References Unless otherwise specified, the below documents can be found at http://www.kemptechnologies.com/documentation. Licensing, Feature Description Copyright © 2002 - 2014 KEMP Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
LoadMaster for UCS Installation Installation Guide Guide for LoadMaster for UCS Installation Document History Date Change Reason for Change Version Resp. Initial draft of the document Initial draft of the document 1.0 DD July 2013 Minor update Updated copyright notices 1.1 LB Aug 2013 Minor update Minor changes 1.2 LB Sep 2013 New section added Licensing section added 1.3 LB Sep 2013 Order of steps changed More logical order 1.4 LB Release updates Updates for the 7.
