High Capacity Usage of Load Balancer in Edge Node Alarm

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

Title: Alarm for High Capacity Usage of Load Balancer in Edge Node

Event ID: load_balancer.lb_edge_capacity_in_use_high

Alarm Description:

• Purpose: To inform users that the capacity usage of load balancer in the Edge node is high.
• Impact: If the capacity usage of load balancer is too high, there may be not enough resources for the load balancer service. 

Environment

VMware NSX-T Datacenter
VMware NSX

Cause

Too many load balancer services are configured in an Edge node.

Resolution

Steps to resolve
For 3.1.2 and higher

Recommendation Action:

• If multiple LB instances have been configured in this Edge node, deploy a new Edge node and move some LB instances to that new Edge node.
• If only a single LB instance (small/medium/etc) has been configured in an Edge node of same size (small/medium/etc), deploy a new Edge of bigger size and move the LB instance to that new Edge node.

Maintenance window required for remediation? Yes