NSX-V Load Balancing with SSL Offload fails to load
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NSX-V Load Balancing with SSL Offload fails to load

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Article ID: 320946

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Products

VMware NSX for vSphere

Issue/Introduction

  • Load Balancer fails to load page post login
  • The Load Balancer is loading the login page, redirecting through multiple pages and adding cookies from multiple backend pages.
  • The Load Balancer will fail with error 502

    2018-02-20T10:05:51+00:00 Loadblanacer loadbalancer[30210]: [default]:  [local0.info] 1.1.1.1 - - [20/Feb/2018:10:05:50 +0000] "GET /test/dashboard HTTP/1.1" 502 8396 "" "" 65498 971 "VIP~" "Backend-pool" "SRV3346" 47 0 1 -1 537 PH-- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 "" ""

Environment

VMware NSX Data Center For vSphere

Cause

A payload should not be more that 16KB URL+Cookie. If the payload is too big the Load Balancer will fail with flag PH--.

Resolution

There's no resolution to this issue.

Workaround in 6.4.x:

PUT http://<Manager>/api/4.0/edges/<edge-id>/systemcontrol/config

<systemControl>
   <enabled>true</enabled>
   <property>lb.global.tune.bufsize=34816</property>
</systemControl>