Load balancers allow network traffic to be balanced across multiple servers to increase performance, and they also allow the high availability of services. This distribution of an incoming service among multiple servers is transparent to the end users, which makes deploying load balancers a critical component of any environment.
A good use-case for load balancers for further reading can be found at:
http://cloudmaniac.net/load-balance-vmware-psc-with-nsx/
http://cloudmaniac.net/load-balance-vmware-psc-with-nsx/
The Edge services gateway offers logical Edge load balancers that allow you to utilize the load balancing functionality and distribute incoming traffic across multiple virtual machine instances.
An Edge services gateway instance must be deployed in order to enable the load balancer service. There are multiple steps required when configuring a load balancer service, and it begins with enabling the service...