EDGE Load Balancing
Networking and Security > NSX EDGE > Manage > Load Balancer tab.
Three load balancing options available
- Enable Loadbalance – For internal servers distributed traffic
- Enable Service Insertion – Load balance with third party vendor appliances
- Acceleration Enabled – For faster L4 LB engine instead of L7
You can also select a variety of logging options
Details can be found in the VMware Document Centre
vSphere standard switch – Load Balancing
Diagram try to display my understanding of the vSphere standard switch load balancing using Round Robin of physical NICs
Topics :
Learn NSX – Home
Learn NSX Day 1 : NSX Requirements
Learn NSX Day 2 : NSX Deployment Best Practice
Learn NSX Day 3 : NSX Manager and NSX Controller
Learn NSX Day 4 : NSX Roles
Learn NSX Day 5 : NSX HA, Edge, REST API
Learn NSX Day 6 : NSX and Logical Switches
Learn NSX Day 7 : Deploying ESXi
Learn NSX Day 8 : vDS (vSphere Distributed Switch)
Learn NSX Day 9 : Load Balancing Feature
Learn NSX Day 10 : Layer 2 Bridging
Learn NSX Day 11 : NSX EDGE
Learn NSX Day 12 : Spoof Guard
Learn NSX Day 13 : Distributed Router and Distributed Logical Firewall
Learn NSX Day 14 : Monitoring
Learn NSX Day 15 : NSX Backups
Learn NSX Day 16 : Useful Commands & Errors
These are notes made during my study of VMware NSX for vSphere. Apologise if any of the detail is incorrect. Hopefully posts under “Learn NSX” help others to start learning about VMware NSX for vSphere.