This section provides minimum configuration required for the NSX Advanced Load Balancer Controller virtual machine.

  1. Based on deployment scale considerations, choose an appropriate VM size. For more details on Controller sizing, see NSX Advanced Load Balancer Controller Sizing. The recommended minimum GCP machine-type is n1-standard-8 (8 vCPUs, 32 GB Memory). The machine-type depends on the NSX Advanced Load Balancer Controller scale requirement.

  2. NSX Advanced Load Balancer Controller recommends SE with minimum memory of 2 GB, and 1 vCPU.

Note:

For more information on the recommended hard disk size, see Allocating Disk Capacity.

For more information on creating a cluster, see Controller Cluster IP in GCP.