Creating a Virtual IP using Horizon

The final step in the creation of the load balancer is to provide it with a Virtual IP address (VIP). The clients connect to the load balanced application using the VIP. In this recipe, we will associate a VIP to the load balancer pool using Horizon.

Getting ready

To create a VIP, you will need the following information:

• A name to identify the VIP

• The name of the load balancer pool

• The Subnet CIDR associated with this pool

• A free IP address in the Subnet for the VIP configuration

• The protocol port on which the load balancer will listen for the client request

• The protocol type

• The method of session persistence

• The connection limit for the load balancer

How to do it…

The following steps will show you how to attach a VIP to a load balancer:

1. Log in to Horizon with the appropriate credentials.

2. In the left navigation menu, navigate to Project | Network | Load Balancers.

3. Click on the Actions drop-down menu for a specific load balancer pool and select Add VIP:

   

4. In the Add VIP...