Working with pools
The IBM Cloud® Network Load Balancer for VPC (NLB) pool is a group of back-end targets that receive the inbound customer traffic from the load balancer and provide your outbound traffic response. The pool has a protocol, a load-balancing algorithm, the back-end targets (VPC instances), the health checks for the back-end targets, and the session stickiness.
You can configure pools when creating a network load balancer, or later with the following procedure:
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From your browser, open the IBM Cloud console and log in to your account.
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Select the Navigation Menu
, then click Infrastructure > Network > Load balancers.
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Click the network load balancer that you want to change.
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On the network load balancer's details page, click the back-end pools tab and select the pool that you want to edit.
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Select the options for your pool:
- Pool Name: The name for your pool. Ideally, a name that describes the function that is performed by this pool.
- Protocol: The network traffic protocol for your traffic.
- Method: The load-balancing algorithm for the pool.
- Session stickiness: Whether all requests during a user's session are sent to the same instance.
- Health check: For information about configuring health checks, see Working with health checks.
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You can add a backup pool to any existing pool by selecting
failsafe policy
with following menu options:
- Action: The action to perform if primary pool is unhealthy. One of:
forward
orfail
- Target: The selection of the backup pool is done here.