Configure Load Balancing

Owned by Tahir Kulelija
Last updated: 03 Dec 2020

The NSX Advanced Networking load balancer enables network traffic to follow multiple paths to a specific destination. It distributes incoming service requests evenly among multiple servers in such a way that the load distribution is transparent to users. With the NSX Edge Gateway Load balancing you can achieving optimal resource utilization, maximizing throughput, minimizing response time, and avoiding overload. The NSX Edge provides load balancing up to Layer 7.

Below are details on how to use load balancing on your NSX Advanced Networking Edge. 

Introduction to Load Balancing Configuration

You can map an external, or public, IP address to a set of internal servers for load balancing. The load balancer accepts TCP, HTTP, or HTTPS requests on the external IP address and decides which internal server to use.

The NSX Edge load balancer distributes network traffic across multiple servers to achieve optimal resource utilization. You create an application profile to define the behavior of a particular type of network traffic. Next, you create a service monitor to define health check parameters for the load balancer. You now create a server pool consisting of backend server members and associate a service monitor with the pool to manage and share the backend servers flexibly and efficiently. When the virtual server receives a request, it chooses the appropriate pool to distribute the traffic comprising one or more members based on the associated algorithm. Each pool is monitored by the associated service monitor. When the load balancer detects a problem with a pool member, it is marked as down.

Clicking on the Load Balancer Tab of your vDC you will see the options listed below:

  1. The Load Balancer Tab
  2. Button to Enable/Disable the Load Balancer (default is disabled)
  3. Action Buttons used to Save Config, Revert Changes and Launch this Help