Configuring the load-balancing service
Load balancers are common in High Availability scenarios, particularly those involving web and database transactions. The vShield Edge load-balancing service allows traffic to be spread across the available IP addresses, reducing the load on a single host and improving performance during heavy traffic periods. The supported protocols are HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP.
Getting ready
In order to proceed, we require access to vShield App through the vSphere Client plugin. The client can be run on any modern Windows desktop operating system or server operating system.
Note
The vShield vSphere Client plugin requires Adobe Flash, which is not supported on Linux operating systems at this time.
Ensure the vCenter account used to log in has administrative rights to vShield Manager.
How to do it…
Perform the following steps:
Launch vSphere Client using an account with administrative rights, if it is not already open.
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