CREATE POOLS ON LOAD BALANCER

Log in to the HI GIO PORTAL as Organization Administrator and Navigate to  

Networking > Edge Gateway > Load Balancer > Pool.

Press ADD to Create a Load Balancer Pool and configure the Pool.

1. Create 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 Algorithmn: (example Round Robin)

• Persistence: Persistence profile will ensure that the same user sticks to the same server for a desired duration of time (example Client IP)

• Active Health Monitor: (example HTTP - This will send periodic HTTP HEAD request to each server in the Pool to check the availability)

  Open

  

Open

2. Create pool for 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 443)

• Load Balancer Algorithmn: (example Round Robin)

• Persistence: Persistence profile will ensure that the same user sticks to the same server for a desired duration of time (example Client IP)

NSX ALB support various Persistence types:

• Active Health Monitor: (example HTTPS - This will send periodic HTTPS HEAD request to each server in the Pool to check the availability)

In the Members Tab, add two/or more entries and enter the IP Addresses and Port from the Virtual Machines running the application Servers.

In the SSL Settings Tab:

• SSL Enable: Enable

• Hide Service Certificates: disable

• Select one or more certificates to be used by the Load Balancer Pool: Select your Certificate