VCP-VCF Administrator 2024 Question 233
Select 3An organization is deploying a new web application and wants to configure the NSX load balancer to distribute incoming traffic across their web servers. The administrator has already created the virtual server, server pool, and application profiles. Which additional configuration steps should the administrator perform to ensure proper load balancing?
- A
Bind the virtual server to the server pool.
- B
Create a health monitor and associate it with the server pool.
- C
Enable SNAT (Source NAT) on the virtual server.
- D
Configure firewall rules to allow traffic to the load balancer.
- E
Assign the virtual server to an Edge cluster.
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Correct answers: A, B, D
Explanation
To configure an NSX load balancer for proper operation, the virtual server must be bound to the server pool to direct traffic to backend servers, a health monitor must be associated with the server pool to ensure only healthy servers handle traffic, and appropriate firewall rules must be configured to allow the load balancer to function. While SNAT may be required in certain network designs, it is not always necessary for basic load balancing functionality.
- A. Correct.
Binding the virtual server to the server pool is required to ensure that incoming traffic is directed to the configured backend servers.
- B. Correct.
Creating and associating a health monitor with the server pool is necessary to ensure that the load balancer only routes traffic to healthy backend servers.
- C. Incorrect.
While enabling SNAT is an option in some scenarios, it is not strictly required for load balancing in this case unless there are specific network design considerations.
- D. Correct.
Firewall rules must be configured to allow traffic to and from the NSX load balancer. Without this, the load balancer cannot handle any traffic.
- E. Incorrect.
Assigning the virtual server to an Edge cluster is not a required step as the virtual server is already tied to the load balancer managed by the NSX Edge.