This section discusses the configuration of the four properties through NSX Advanced Load Balancer UI.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to Applications > Pools. If no pools exist, create one. Otherwise, click the pencil icon in the row of the pool you wish to edit.
  2. Check Enable Request Queuing box in General tab and specify number of requests to be queued when pool is full in Queue Length field.
  3. Specify the relevant fields under Fail Action tab.
  4. Specify the values for Idle Timeout, Life Timeout, Connection Used Times, Cache Connections Per Server fields under General tab:
  5. Specify the following details:
    Option Description

    Deactivate Port Translation

    Select this box to deactivate port translation. This is applicable to both L4 and L7 virtual services.

    Connection Ramp

    Specify the duration for which new connections will be gradually ramped up to a server recently brought online. This is applicable to both L4 and L7 virtual services.

    Default Server Timeout

    Specify a value between 0 milliseconds and 21600000 millisecond (6 hours). Server timeout value specifies the time within which a server connection needs to be established and a request response exchange completes between NSX Advanced Load Balancer and the server. This is applicable to both L4 and L7 virtual services.

    Note:

    If the Server Timeout value is not entered, by default, the value will be set to 3600000 milliseconds (1 hour).

    Description

    Specify the pool description.

    Connections per Server

    Specify the maximum number of concurrent connections allowed to each server within the pool. This is applicable to both L4 and L7 virtual services.

    HTTP Server Reselect

    Check HTTP Server Reselect box when server responds with specific response codes. This is applicable for L7 virtual services.
  6. Click SAVE.