NSX load balancer supports the following features.
- Layer 4 - TCP and UDP
- Layer 7 - HTTP and HTTPS with load balancer rules support
- Server pools - static and dynamic with NSGroup
- Persistence - Source-IP and Cookie persistence mode
- Health check monitors - Active monitor which includes HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, UDP, and ICMP, and passive monitor
- SNAT - Transparent, Automap, and IP List
- HTTP upgrade - For applications using HTTP upgrade such as WebSocket, the client or server requests for HTTP Upgrade, which is supported. By default, NSX supports and accepts HTTPS upgrade client request using the HTTP application profile.
- Available in NSX 4.1.1, the Load Balancing runbook lists the topology for the given load balancer instance.
Note: SSL -Terminate-mode and proxy-mode is not supported in NSX limited export release.
