Multi-Site Network and Security Services with NSX-T: Implement Network Security, Stateful Services, and Operations

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I. HoogendoornMulti-Site Network and Security Services with NSX-Thttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7083-7_5

5. NSX-T Load Balancing

Iwan Hoogendoorn¹  

(1)

ROTTERDAM, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

 

This chapter explains the NSX-T load balancer architecture and components.

The chapter identifies the load balancer deployment modes and explains how to create and configure a load balancer by configuring the Layer-4 and Layer-7 virtual servers and server pools.

NSX-T Load Balancing Use Cases

The NSX-T load balancer helps distribute incoming requests across multiple (virtual machine) servers. This not only offers high availability, but also allows better performance/throughput ...