Depending on the Horizon domain components being deployed, you must configure one to three load balancers.

Load balancers are required for the following.

  • Load balance incoming internal requests (and Unified Access Gateway appliance south bound traffic) across the Connection Servers. This load balancer is mandatory.
  • Load balance incoming WAN based requests across the Unified Access Gateway appliances. This load balancer is required only if you are deploying an Unified Access Gateway appliance.
  • Load balance desktop connect requests across App Volumes Managers. This load balancer is required only if you are deploying App Volumes.

See Fig 2 in Working with Horizon Domains for an example.

Procedure

  1. On the Load Balancers page, provide a prefix for the load balancer VM names.
  2. In the Load Balancers section, select Add manually to add load balancers manually or Import from JSON template to import load balancers from a JSON file.
    • To add load balancer manually, follow the steps below
      1. Provide the following information.
        Field Name Information to be Entered
        Alias Enter an alias for the load balancer.
        FQDN Enter the FQDN for the load balancer.
        VM Name Enter a name for the load balancer VM.
        IP Enter the IP address for the load balancer.
        Subnet Mask Enter the subnet mask for the load balancer.
        Gateway Enter the gateway for the load balancer.
        CLI Password Enter the CLI password for the load balancer.
        Specified password must meet the following guidelines:
        • subsequent identical characters.
        • Contain at least 12 characters and no more than 255 characters.
        • Start with an alphabetical character.
        • Contain at least one lowercase character.
        • Contain at least one uppercase character.
        • Contain at least one digit.
        • Contain at least one special character.
        • Should not contain any whitespace.
        Confirm CLI Password Re-enter the CLI password for the load balancer.
      2. Click Add.

        The load balancer is added to the Load Balancer table.

      3. Repeat steps a and b for additional load balancers as required.
    • To import load balancers from a JSON file, click Browse, select the file, and click Upload.

      Load balancers from the JSON file are added to the Load Balancer table.

  3. Click Next.