Creating a Virtual IP using Horizon
The final step in the creation of the load balancer is to provide it with a Virtual IP address (VIP). The clients connect to the load balanced application using the VIP. In this recipe, we will associate a VIP to the load balancer pool using Horizon.
Getting ready
To create a VIP, you will need the following information:
- A name to identify the VIP
- The name of the load balancer pool
- The Subnet CIDR associated with this pool
- A free IP address in the Subnet for the VIP configuration
- The protocol port on which the load balancer will listen for the client request
- The protocol type
- The method of session persistence
- The connection limit for the load balancer
How to do it…
The following steps will show you how to attach a VIP to ...
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