Work with the Eucalyptus Management Console / Work with Load Balancers |
This wizard allows you to create a new load balancer. A load balancer allows you to automatically balance incoming traffic among a predefined group of instances, ensuring that requests are sent to an instance that has the capacity to serve them. For more information on load balancers, see Using Elastic Load Balancing in the Eucalyptus User Guide.
This section is where you specify the basic configuration of your new load balancer.
The ability to apply a security policy is only available if HTTPS or SSL is specified as the protocol.
The ability to apply a security certificate is only available if HTTPS or SSL is specified as the protocol.
To help you manage your cloud's instances, images, and other Eucalyptus resources, you can optionally assign your own metadata to resources in the form of tags. You can use tags to create user-friendly names, make resource searching easier, and improve coordination between multiple users. You can optionally add tags by performing the following steps: