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Add a virtual server to a load balancer

  1. From 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 → Virtual Servers tab.

  7. Click +.

  8. Turn on the Enable Virtual Server toggle switch.

  9. Select Application Profile.

  10. Enter a name for the virtual server.

  11. Enter the IP address where the virtual server will receive requests.

  12. Select a protocol.

  13. Enter a port.

  14. Optional: select a server pool. If the Round Robin balancing algorithm was selected during pool configuration, and the Weight parameter for each server is equal to one, each subsequent request will be processed by the next server from the pool.

  15. Optional: in the Connection Limit field, specify the maximum number of concurrent connections that the virtual server can handle.

  16. Optional: in the Connection Rate Limit (CPS) field, specify the maximum number of new incoming requests per second.

  17. Optional: in the Edge Gateway console, check that the load balancer status is UP:

    Show service loadbalancer pool