Adding a Port Forwarding Rule on a VPC

Name: A name for the load balancer rule.

Description: A short description of the rule that can be displayed to users.

Source IP Address: The source IP from which traffic originates. The IP is acquired from the CIDR of that particular tier on which you want to create the Internal LB rule.

For every Source IP, a new Internal LB VM is created for load balancing.

Source Port: The port associated with the source IP. Traffic on this port is load balanced.

Instance Port: The port of the internal LB VM.

Algorithm. Choose the load balancing algorithm you want CloudPlatform to use. CloudPlatform supports the following well-known algorithms:

Round-robin

Least connections

Source

16.27.12. Adding a Port Forwarding Rule on a VPC

1.Log in to the CloudPlatform UI as an administrator or end user.

2.In the left navigation, choose Network.

3.In the Select view, select VPC.

All the VPCs that you have created for the account is listed in the page.

4.Click the Configure button of the VPC to which you want to deploy the VMs.

The VPC page is displayed where all the tiers you created are listed in a diagram. For each tier, the following options are displayed:

Internal LB

Public LB IP

Static NAT

Virtual Machines

CIDR

The following router information is displayed:

Private Gateways

Public IP Addresses

Site-to-Site VPNs

Network ACL Lists

5.In the Router node, select Public IP Addresses.

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4.2 specifications

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