Testing the load balancer

We added two servers as the load balancer members. We also created a health monitor in order to keep a track of the health of the application that is running on the member servers and also associated a VIP with the load balancer.

The following table summarizes our example setup:

Virtual Machine name	Role	IP address
Chapter8_vm1	A load balancer member	20.20.20.3
Chapter8_vm2	A load balancer member	20.20.20.4

The load balancer configuration is as follows:

Resource	IP address
Subnet CIDR	20.20.20.0/24
Network name	LoadBalancer_net1
Virtual IP	20.20.20.50
Application port	80

In this recipe, we will test the load balancer setup by connecting to its VIP and sending a request to the application.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need the following information:

• The VIP of the load balancer

• The protocol port of the load balancer

How to do it…

The following steps will show you how to test the load balancer:

1. Log in to Horizon with the appropriate credentials...