Getting started with IBM Cloud Load Balancer

The IBM Cloud® Load Balancer service helps customers improve availability of their business-critical applications by distributing traffic among multiple application server instances, and by forwarding traffic to healthy instances only.

To use IBM Cloud® Load Balancer, you require two main items:

An account with IBM - IBMid
An IBM server, either Bare Metal or Virtual Server Instance (VSI)

If you need assistance in obtaining an IBMid account, contact your IBM Sales representative for extra guidance.

Ordering a load balancer

To get started with IBM Cloud® Load Balancer, see Using an elastic load balancer for server load-balancing overview.