VMware NSX Network Essentials

Setting up a load balancer

We will perform the following steps in the same order to set up and test a load balancer.

• Set global option for the load balancer
• Create an application profile
• Create a service monitor to define health check performance
• Create a server pool
• Test the load balancer

Setting global options

The procedure for setting global options for the load balancer is as follows:

1. Log in to the vSphere web client.
2. Click Networking & Security and then click NSX Edges.
3. Double-click an NSX Edge.
4. Click Manage and then click the Load Balancer tab.
5. Click Edit.
6. Select the check boxes next to the options you want to enable:
   • Enable Load balancer: Allows the NSX Edge load balancer to distribute traffic to internal servers for load balancing
   • Enable Service Insertion ...