NSX Advanced Load Balancer Service Engines are automatically deployed on Azure by the NSX Advanced Load Balancer Controller, based on the virtual services that have been configured.

NSX Advanced Load Balancer SEs can be deployed on VMs with various sizes. This can be configured under Service Engine Group > Advanced setting.

The table below shows the maximum SSL TPS performance observed on some Azure VM sizes.

Azure VM Size

SSL TPS Performance

F1s

1900

F2s

3850

F4s

6300

F8s

11000
Note:

  • The performance results provided above are indicative numbers for a subset of instance types. There are other VM sizes available under the Service Engine group settings that can be used.

  • SSL performance (TPS - transactions per second) has been measured considering one configured virtual service (HTTPS,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA cipher) and GET requests for a 128-byte payload without session reuse. For more information on Service Engine performance, see the Sizing Service Engines topic in the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Configuration Guide.

  • You can use Standard_D16ds_v5 or Standard_D8ds_v5 for SEs.