CREATE POOLS ON LOAD BALANCING

Log in to the HI GIO PORTAL as an 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 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)

• 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)

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

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2. Create a 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 Algorithm: (example 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:

• Active Health Monitor: (example HTTPS - This will send periodic HTTPS HEAD requests 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

** 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