Customer would like to configure Layer 4 and Layer 7 optimization on the Load Balancer and would like to understand how the different combinations of setting work i.e. configured at Global Level versus local Virtual Server Level
VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4.x
There are two places in the Load Balancer configuration where L4/L7 acceleration can be configured.
The Global Level option is named as Acceleration Enabled as seen below.
The server specific option is configured inside the Virtual Server configuration and is called Enable Acceleration as seen below.
When global AccelerationEnabled is false, all virtualservers are based on L7 engine.
When global AccelerationEnabled is true, each virtualserver can still specify local AccelerationEnable to override it: