Design considerations while load balancing
Several best practices should be followed when setting up an NSX load balancer. Let's read the following points carefully before doing a lab exercise:
Based on the number of server pools, load balancer numbers will also get increased. However, that way, since each tenant has its own load balancer, management and configuration changes will have no impact on other tenants' load balancers.
Deploy load balancers in HA mode for High Availability.
Ensure you don't deploy a load balancer on the same machine where the underlying load-balanced machines are running. Follow the best practice of deploying on a different ESXi host or in a separate management edge cluster.
Select the right load balancing protocol based on application characteristics. For example, round robin, least connected, hashing, and least loaded are some of the common algorithms.
One common question is, do we need an end-to-end SSL connection, or do we need to terminate or offload SSL traffic...
