Configuring vSphere Networking and HAProxy Load Balancer for vSphere with Tanzu

If you are using vSphere Distributed Switch networking for your vSphere with Tanzu environment, you can install and configure the open source HAProxy load balancer. VMware provides an implementation of HAProxy that you can deploy from an OVA file.

Supervisor Cluster with vSphere Networking and HAProxy Load Balancer Workflow

This diagram shows the workflow for configuring vSphere networking and HAProxy load balancer for vSphere with Tanzu.

Figure 1. Configuring vDS networking with HAProxy workflow