Login to your cloud dashboard with userid / password provided in an email.

(IMPORTANT: Dashboard uses features from HTML5, please use browser that fully supports HTML5. Some examples are Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera). 

1. In dashboard, expand “Network” from left navigation menu, and go to “Load Balancers” section.
2. Go to “Pools” tab, click on “+ Add Pool“.
   • Name: Provide a name for the pool (recommended name is XX-Pool-purpose-Y where XX are tenant initials, purpose can be web, app, app name, and Y is a unique numeric value in case you have multiple pools for same purpose).
   • Description
   • Subnet, select the subnet where this pool will reside.
   • Protocol, select HTTP for plain web, HTTPS for SSL, or TCP for custom.
   • Load Balancing Method (round robin is recommended).
   • Click “Add“.
3. Under “Actions” column click on “More” then “Add VIP” to create a virtual IP for load balanced pool.
   • Name: Provide a name for VIP (recommended name is XX-VIP-purpose-Y).
   • Description
   • Specify a free IP, you can manually pick a IP from your subnet, or let DHCP provide one.
   • Protocol Port, specify the port this VIP is listening on for incoming traffic.
   • Select the Protocol to match the one from step 2.
   • Session Persistence if needed.
   • Connection Limit if needed.
   • Click “Add“.
4. Go to “Members” tab and click on “+ Add Member” to the Pools created earlier.
   • Pool, select the Pool from drop down menu.
   • Check the boxes next to the virtual machine names that should be part of this pool.
   • Weight if you desire to not evenly distribute load across backend servers.
   • Protocol Port, is the port number that backend servers are listening on.
5. Go to “Monitors” tab and click on “+ Add Monitor” to create a monitor to check if back-end services are up or down.
   • Type, select the type of monitor based on service being load-balanced.
   • Delay, is how many seconds between every check.
   • Timeout, is how many seconds before request times out.
   • Max Retries, is number of failures before back-end is considered down.
   • Click “Add“
6. Go back to “Pools” tab and associate the newly created monitor to Pool.
   • Click on “More” in “Actions” column.
   • Select “Associate Monitor“
   • Select a monitor template from drop down menu and click “Associate“
7. You have successfully created a load balanced environment that is now accessible from your cloud. To make this visible to public, see “Assign floating IP addresses” tutorial.