As per the VMware Cloud Director Equipment Sizing Tips, the minimal really useful variety of cells to be deployed for a manufacturing setting is three. There might be extra cells relying on the deployment dimension and the anticipated tenant load. 

Since there isn’t any embedded choice for load balancing these cells, an exterior resolution have to be used for that goal. There are a number of choices involving totally different options and designs – one is to make use of VMware NSX Superior Load Balancer.

To start with the configuration of the VMware NSX Superior Load Balancer, a number of objects must be already in place:

• The VMware NSX Superior Load Balancer have to be deployed within the administration zone, and at the least one cloud with at the least one service engine group must be created. Each VMware vCenter/vSphere ESX and NSX clouds are supported to load balancing the VMware Cloud Director cells.
• The Service Engine sizing must be outlined in line with the anticipated load.
• The VMware Cloud Director cells must be deployed and working already. 
• All of the required certificates for the digital providers must be generated, which will likely be used within the Public Addresses configuration. 

To simplify the configuration and future upkeep, the overall advice is to create two digital providers as an alternative of 1 – one Inner (Cloud Supplier) and one Exterior (Tenant). It is going to avoid wasting effort in a while and decrease the chance of creating a mistake with any configurations, as every digital service has its goal clearly recognized. Nonetheless, VMware Cloud Director can’t have a number of addresses/FQDNs set in its Public Addresses settings. This implies the VMware Cloud Director FQDN must be resolved by the general public DNS pointing to the exterior VIP and the inner DNS pointing to the inner VIP.

With VMware Cloud Director 10.5, a brand new devoted part of the documentation lists some instructed load balancer settings.

Primarily based on these suggestions, the next objects must be created and configured in VMware NSX Superior Load Balancer to efficiently load steadiness the VMware Cloud Director cells:

• Utility Profile
• Well being Monitor
• Certificates Import
• Swimming pools
• Digital IPs (VIPs)
• Digital Providers

Moreover, relying on whether or not the setting would require it, issues similar to DataScripts and String Lists might be utilized.

To seek out the total configuration and safety particulars, step-by-step procedures to create every merchandise, and instance screenshots, please examine our Load Balancing the VMware Cloud Director Cells with VMware NSX Superior Load Balancer whitepaper that was not too long ago printed.

It additionally incorporates details about configuring older VMware Cloud Director variations (pre-10.4) the place the Console Proxy requires further consideration.

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