Managing virtual load balancer pool entries

From the My Cloud Services Console, you can perform these tasks to manage virtual load balancer (VLB) pool entries for servers:

• • To add a server to a VLB pool entry
  • To remove a server from a VLB pool entry
  • To enable or disable a VLB pool entry for a server

To add a server to a VLB pool entry

1. From the My Services tab of My Cloud Services Console, click the Servers link bar or click the Details icon for a server displayed in the pane below your list of services.
   
   
2. Select a server from the displayed list and click the Manage Virtual Load Balancer icon . 
   
   
   The Edit Load Balancer Settings dialog appears.
   
   
   
3. Select the Network Interface for the pool.
   
4. Click the Add Virtual Load Balancer Pool icon .  The Chose Load Balancers dialog appears.
   
   
   
5. Select a VLB pool entry from the list by clicking the check box to the left of the entry.
    
6. Choose whether to enable the VLB pool entry when added and whether to override the application protocol and port number of the VLB pool.
7. Click Update.  Depending on the options you selected in the preceding step, the pool entry is updated.  For example, if you clicked the check box to enable the load balancer pool entry, the Enabled flag is set to True.
   
8. If necessary, make changes to the options for a pool entry and click Update again to refresh the changed options.
9. Click OK to add the load balancer pool entry.

To remove a server from a VLB pool entry

1. From the My Services tab of My Cloud Services Console, click the Servers link bar or click the Details icon for a server displayed in the pane below your list of services.
2. Select a server and click the Manage Virtual Load Balancer icon .  The Edit Load Balancer Settings dialog appears.
3. Select the Network Interface for the pool.
4. Highlight the VLB pool entry you want to remove.
5. Click the Remove Virtual Load Balancer Pool icon  to remove the highlighted VLB pool entry.  A confirmation deletion pop up appears.
6. Click Yes to confirm permanent deletion of the VLB pool entry.

To enable or disable a VLB pool entry for a server

1. From the My Services tab of My Cloud Services Console, click the Servers link bar or click the Details icon  for a server displayed in the pane below your list of services.
2. Select a server and click the Manage Virtual Load Balancer icon .  The Edit Load Balancer Settings dialog appears.
3. Select the Network Interface for the pool.
4. Highlight the VLB pool entry you want to enable or disable.
   
5. Click the Enable Pool icon   or the Disable Pool icon  to change the status of the highlighted VLB pool entry for the server.  The status of your request is displayed in the Pending Activity pane and also on the Servers link bar of the Activities tab.