| vCloud Director Element | Notes |
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| vCloud Director documentation |
| SSL certificates | - To list and upload SSL server certificates to IAM your user requires IAM privileges to manage IAM
- Abiquo never stores SSL certificates, so you cannot create a routing rule for a secure connection in an Abiquo-only load balancer that is not assigned to a network
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| Healthy threshold | - AWS will assign a previously unhealthy machine a healthy status after a number of successful health checks. Check the value configured for your platform with your system administrator.
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| Modifications | You cannot change the following attributes in AWS: |
| Load balancer Name | - AWS will only accept the following characters: A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and "-".
- You cannot change the name after Abiquo creates the load balancer in AWS (when a valid load balancer is saved with a subnet assigned to it)
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| Abiquo-only load balancers | - AWS load balancers are created for virtual datacenter networks, which are VPC subnets
- Abiquo will not create a load balancer in AWS until it is assigned to at least one subnet
- You can create a load balancer in Abiquo only, by not supplying a subnet
- If you delete the load balancer directly in the provider, it will remain in Abiquo only
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| High availability | - For high availablility, create private networks (subnets) in different availability zone in your virtual datacenter
- Abiquo 4.0+ supports virtual machines in different subnets attached to the same load balancer
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| Multiple incoming connections | Use one load balancer with multiple incoming connections to different ports |
| Routing rules | - You must create at least one routing rule. There must always be at least one routing rule in the load balancer
- You can only create one routing rule per protocol and path
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| Subnet | - If you do not supply a subnet when creating the load balancer, Abiquo will not create the LB in AWS
- When you edit the load balancer, you can add new subnets and delete subnets
- Abiquo 4.0+ supports virtual machines in different subnets attached to the same load balancer
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| Routing rule protocol in | AWS Load balance multiple protocols and ports | Use multiple load balancers to the same IP address each with an incoming connection to a different port |
| Algorithms | - The algorithms vCloud Director supports are:
- ROUND_ROBIN
- IP_HASH
- LEAST_CONN
- URI
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| Addresses | In vCloud Director a load balancer must have an external address |
| Routing rule protocols in | vCloud Director accepts HTTP, HTTPS, TCP |
| Routing rule port in | AWS accepts 80, 443 and 1024-65535 inclusive |
| SSL certificate | Can be a new certificate or an existing one registered in AWS with an ARN |
| Health check | - If you do not create a health check, AWS will create a default health check with the following specifications:
- Name in the format "PROTOCOL:port", for example, "TCP:80"
- TCP check to one of the ports specified in a routing rule
- AWS will only allow you to create one health check per load balancer
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| Firewalls | If a firewall does not display, it may not have been properly synchronized. In this case, you will need to click Cancel, synchronize firewalls and start again creating a new load balancerChanges to routing rules | You cannot change vCloud Director routing rules after they have been created |
| Health check | The health check is not required |
| Health check protocols | vCloud Director supports: HTTP, SSL, TCP |