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Minion42_161150
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Jun 20, 2014

Load balance based on Host CPU/RAM utilization?

Is it possible for the LTM to route VDI connection traffic based on the resource utilization of the underlying ESXi hosts? I am building a 3 site (POD) Horizon View environment and want to be able to...
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Steve_M__153836
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Jun 20, 2014

I have previously been responsible for both a VMware Horizon View 5.2 environment and F5 LTMs simultaneously and spent a lot of time working on load balancing the connection and security servers, but there is no mechanism by which you would want to have the LTMs do anything regarding load on the ESXi hosts. This is strictly a job for VMware DRS within the vCenter environment. Once your View client or browser (View Blast Gateway) authenticates the user, the connection between the the end user and the VM is no longer going through the LTM. The LTM only load balances the initial request among the connection or security servers. Hope this information is useful to you.