CREATE POOLS ON LOAD BALANCING
- Tran Dai Quan
- Tran Khanh Ngoc
Procedure
Step 1: Log in to the HI GIO PORTAL as an Organization Administrator and Navigate to
Networking > Edge Gateway > Load Balancer > Pool.
Step 2: Press ADD to create and configure a load balancer pool.
- 1. Create a pool for non-encrypted application
General Settings Tab:
Name: type Pool name (example IIS-Web-Pool)
Default Server Port: The destination server port used by the traffic sent to the member (example 80)
Load Balancer Algorithm: (example Round Robin)
NSX ALB supports various Load-balancing methods:
Consistent Hash
Core Affinity
Fastest Response
Fewest Servers
Least Connections
Least Load
Round Robin
Persistence: The persistence profile will ensure that the same user sticks to the same server for a desired duration of time (e.g. Client IP)
NSX ALB supports various Persistence types:
System-Persistence-App-Cookie
System-Persistence-Client-IP
System-Persistence-Custom-HTTP-Header
System-Persistence-HTTP-Cookie
System-Persistence-TLS
Active Health Monitor: (example HTTP - This will send periodic HTTP HEAD requests to each server in the Pool to check the availability)
Add two/or more entries in the Members tab and enter the IP Addresses and Port from the Virtual Machines running the application Servers.
Press SAVE to create a non-encrypted pool.
- 2. Create a pool for encrypted application
Default Active Health Monitor:
HTTP/HTTPS:
Send Interval: 10s
Receive Timeout: 4s
Successful Checks: 3
Failed Checks: 3
Health Monitor Port: use the Default Server Port of the pool.
HTTP request: HEAD / HTTP/1.0
Response Code: 2xx, 3xx
TCP:
Send Interval: 10s
Receive Timeout: 4s
Successful Checks: 2
Failed Checks: 2
Health Monitor Port: use the Default Server Port of the pool.
UDP:
Send Interval: 4s
Receive Timeout: 2s
Successful Checks: 2
Failed Checks: 2
Health Monitor Port: use the Default Server Port of the pool.
PING:
Send Interval: 10s
Receive Timeout: 4s
Successful Checks: 2
Failed Checks: 2
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