The final step in the creation of the load balancer is to provide it with a Virtual IP address (VIP). The clients connect to the load balanced application using the VIP. In this recipe, we will associate a VIP to the load balancer pool using Horizon.
To create a VIP, you will need the following information:
A name to identify the VIP
The name of the load balancer pool
The Subnet CIDR associated with this pool
A free IP address in the Subnet for the VIP configuration
The protocol port on which the load balancer will listen for the client request
The protocol type
The method of session persistence
The connection limit for the load balancer
The following steps will show you how to attach a VIP to a load balancer: