The NSX-V virtual networking solution includes the capability of deploying an Edge gateway as a load balancer.
Currently, the NSX-V load balancer has basic load balancing functionality and it should not be considered a full-fledged load balancer with advanced configuration like F5 LTM.
Use NSX-V version 6.1.3 and higher for all deployments as many issues with the load balancers have been resolved in this release.
Prerequisites
The following are the prerequisites for a functional NSX-V load balancer in front of a vRealize Operations Manager cluster:
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This document assumes that NSX-V deployment is already deployed in the environment and is fully functional.
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The NSX-V deployment is of version 6.1.3 or higher.
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NSX-V Edge is deployed and has access to the network on which vRealize Operations Manager cluster is deployed.
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Edge can be enabled for high availability, however it is not a requirement
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Currently, there are 2 types of modes the load balancer can be used: Accelerated and Non-Accelerated. Difference between Acceleration enabled/disabled is the LB will passthrough TCP connection (enabled) or terminate the TCP connection (disabled), and then send once the TCP connection is done, it will do open a TCP connection to the pool member.