3. Load Balancer

Overview

HI GIO CLOUD supports Layer-4 and Layer-7 Load balancer.

Configure load balancing for an application in HI GIO CLOUD. The main configuration steps need to be performed as follows:

Item
Description

Service Engine Group (required)

Instance of Load balancer (Preparing by HI GIO support)

Server Pool (required)

Pool member VMs that are running the same application

Monitor Profile (required)

Define how Load balancer health check Pool member’s application status.

HI GIO Portal has built-in support for Monitor Profile (Ping/TCP/HTTP/HTTPS,…) default that can be used.

Persistence Profile (optional)

How load balancer to direct all requests originating from a single client to a single backend VM

SSL Certificate (optional)

If you want to do SSL termination on the Load balancer, you must register an SSL certificate on Portal.

Virtual Service (required)

Virtual Services (VIP) is the main object of load balancing, which is a service representing the pool server backend.

Guideline

Please refer to the Load Balancer usage guide in the list below:

1 IMPORT SSL CERTIFICATE

2 CREATE POOLS ON LOAD BALANCER

3 CREATE VIRTUAL SERVICE (VS) ON LOAD BALANCER

4 OPEN FIREWALL RULE AND PUBIC SERVICE TO INTERNET

5 MONITOR TRAFFIC ANALYTICS IN FPT HI GIO CLOUD UI

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