docs/en-US/add-loadbalancer-rule-vpc.xml

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<section id="add-loadbalancer-rule-vpc">
  <title>Adding Load Balancing Rules on a VPC</title>
  <para>A &PRODUCT; user or administrator may create load balancing rules that balance traffic
    received at a public IP to one or more VMs that belong to a network tier that provides load
    balancing service in a VPC. A user creates a rule, specifies an algorithm, and assigns the rule
    to a set of VMs within a VPC.</para>
  <orderedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>Log in to the &PRODUCT; UI as an administrator or end user.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>In the left navigation, choose Network.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>In the Select view, select VPC.</para>
      <para>All the VPCs that you have created for the account is listed in the page.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Click the Configure button of the VPC to which you want to configure load balancing
        rules.</para>
      <para>The VPC page is displayed where all the tiers you created are listed in a
        diagram.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Click the Settings icon.</para>
      <para>The following options are displayed.</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>IP Addresses</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Gateways</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Site-to-Site VPN</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Network ACLs</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Select IP Addresses.</para>
      <para>The IP Addresses page is displayed.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Click the IP address for which you want to create the rule, then click the Configuration
        tab.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>In the Load Balancing node of the diagram, click View All.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Select the tier to which you want to apply the rule.</para>
      <note>
        <para>In a VPC, the load balancing service is supported only on a single tier.</para>
      </note>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>Specify the following:</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para><emphasis role="bold">Name</emphasis>: A name for the load balancer rule.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para><emphasis role="bold">Public Port</emphasis>: The port that receives the incoming
            traffic to be balanced.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para><emphasis role="bold">Private Port</emphasis>: The port that the VMs will use to
            receive the traffic.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para><emphasis role="bold">Algorithm</emphasis>. Choose the load balancing algorithm you
            want &PRODUCT; to use. &PRODUCT; supports the following well-known algorithms:</para>
          <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
              <para>Round-robin</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>Least connections</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>Source</para>
            </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para><emphasis role="bold">Stickiness</emphasis>. (Optional) Click Configure and choose
            the algorithm for the stickiness policy. See Sticky Session Policies for Load Balancer
            Rules.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para><emphasis role="bold">Add VMs</emphasis>: Click Add VMs, then select two or more VMs
            that will divide the load of incoming traffic, and click Apply.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>
  </orderedlist>
  <para>The new load balancing rule appears in the list. You can repeat these steps to add more load
    balancing rules for this IP address.</para>
</section>