NSX-T Server Pools are used to contain the nodes that are receiving traffic. Also server pools are used to manage load balancer distribution methods and has a service monitor attached to it for Health Check parameters.

You will need to create a single pool per VMware Aria Operations cluster with all the data nodes participating in the cluster as members. Remote collectors must not be added into this pool.

Procedure

  1. To configure Server Pool, navigate to Applications > Pools
  2. Click on CREATE POOL
  3. Choose a Name for the Pool
  4. Change Default Server Port to 443
  5. Change Load Balance type to Round Robin
  6. Change Persistence to System-Persistence-Client-IP
  7. Under Health Monitors click on Add Active Monitor and add the health monitor which has been created before
    Note:

    (Optional) Activate Lookup Server by Name and Activate real time metrics

  8. Click Next
  9. In Server IP Address enter the vROPS Data Node IP Address and click Add Server (repeat for all the Data nodes)
  10. Change the Port number for the servers to 443
  11. Click Next
  12. Leave all the default values in Options tab
  13. Click Next and then Save