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Create a server pool

  1. In the control panel, open the Cloud Director panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → the Cloud Director section.
  2. Open the virtual data center page.
  3. Go to Networking → Edges.
  4. Open the page of the required Edge.
  5. Click SERVICES.
  6. Open the Load Balancer → Pools tab.
  7. Click +.
  8. Enter a pool name.
  9. In the Algorithm field, select a load balancing algorithm.
  10. In the Monitor field, select a monitoring type for the backend health check.
  11. To allow internal servers to see the original client source IPs and Edge to act as the default gateway, turn on the Transparent toggle switch. If the toggle switch is off, traffic to internal servers comes from the load balancer source IP.
  12. In the Members section, click +.
  13. Enter a server name.
  14. In the IP Address field, enter the server IP address.
  15. In the Port field, enter the port on which the server will receive traffic.
  16. In the Monitor Port field, enter the port for the health check (Monitor healthcheck).
  17. In the Weight field, enter the weight — it is used to adjust the proportional amount of traffic received by a specific pool member.
  18. Optional: in the Max Connections field, enter the maximum number of connections to the server.
  19. Optional: in the Min Connections field, enter the minimum number of connections that the server must process before traffic is redirected to the next pool member.
  20. Click Keep.