Cisco UCS Director supports the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) product module, which provides local load balancing based on a reverse proxy architecture, increases operational efficiency, and ensures peak network performance by providing a flexible, high-performance application delivery system. Cisco UCS Director supports basic and critical configuration in the LTM module through its generic tasks and reports. You can manage the LTM through Cisco UCS Director. In this document, references to F5 or BIG-IP or the "load balancer" all refer to this F5 product.

Note	For specific information about the F5 product releases supported by Cisco UCS Director and for related information, refer to the Cisco UCS Director Release Notes.

Cisco UCS Director includes the following features and capabilities to support the F5 BIG-IP LTM product module:

• iApps Application Services and Templates

• Virtual Server creation, deletion, updates, and management, including inventories, processing metrics, and reports.

• Pool list creation, deletion, updates, and management, including inventories, processing metrics, and reports.

• Pool member inventory and reports.

• Node list inventory, processing metrics, and reports.

• TCP and UDP profile reports.

• Device group creation, deletion, updates, and management, including inventories, processing metrics, and reports.

• Traffic group creation, deletion, updates, and management, including inventories, processing metrics, and reports.

• Device information reports.

• HA group reports.

Cisco UCS Director includes an F5 BIG-IP workflow task to aid in connecting to the Load Balancer using the Workflow Designer. The crucial workflow tasks are:

• Allocate Container VM Resources

• Provision Container - Network

• Provision Container - VM

• Re-synch Container - VMs

• Setup Container Gateway

• Setup Container F5 Load Balancer

• Send Container Email