Setting up a load balancer
We will perform the following steps in the same order to set up and test a load balancer.
Set global option for the load balancer
Create an application profile
Create a service monitor to define health check performance
Create a server pool
Test the load balancer
Setting global options
The procedure for setting global options for the load balancer is as follows:
Log in to the vSphere web client.
Click Networking & Security and then click NSX Edges.
Double-click an NSX Edge.
Click Manage and then click the Load Balancer tab.
Click Edit.
Select the check boxes next to the options you want to enable:
Enable Load balancer: Allows the NSX Edge load balancer to distribute traffic to internal servers for load balancing
Enable Service Insertion: Allows the load balancer to work with third-party vendor appliances.
Acceleration Enabled: When enabled, the NSX Edge load balancer uses the faster L4 LB engine rather than the L7 LB engine.
Logging: The NSX Edge load balancer collects...
