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6 Specify additional health check settings based on your selected Health check protocol.
a Enter the Method to be used for detecting server status. The options are GET, OPTIONS, and
POST.
b Enter the URL to be used in the request for detecting server status. This is the URL that is used
for by GET and POST ("/" by default) method options.
c In the Send text box, enter the string to be sent to the server after a connection is established.
In the Send text box, enter the string to be sent to the server after a connection is established.
d In the Receive text box, enter the string expected to receive from the server.
Only when the received string matches this definition is the server is considered as up.
The string can be a header or in the body of the response.
7 Click the Advanced tab and proceed to the Define Virtual Server Advanced Settings topic to continue
defining the virtual server in the NSX load balancer component.
To specify logging options, see Define Load Balancer Logging Options.
Define Virtual Server Advanced Settings
By selecting the Customize option on the General tab, you can customize the NSX load balancer
component to specify settings such as the number of concurrent connections that a single pool member
can recognize and the maximum number of concurrent connections that the virtual server can process.
Prerequisites
Define Virtual Server General Settings.
Procedure
1 Enter a value in the Connection limit text box to specify the maximum concurrent connections in
NSX that the virtual server can process.
This setting considers the number of all member connections.
Enter a value of 0 to specify no limit.
2 Enter a value in the Connection rate limit text box to specify the maximum number of incoming
connection requests in NSX that can be accepted per second.
This setting considers the number of all member connections.
Enter a value of 0 to specify no limit.
3 (Optional) Select the Enable acceleration check box to specify that each virtual IP (VIP) uses the
faster L4 load balancer rather than the L7 load balancer.
4 (Optional) Select the Transparent check box to allow the load balancer pool members to view the IP
address of the machines that are calling the load balancer.
If not selected, the members of the load balancer pool view the traffic source IP address as a load
balancer internal IP address.
Configuring vRealize Automation
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