Creating and managing Inline Load Balancer

Available in VPC

Inline Load Balancer is a Load Balancer that operates in the Inline manner in which network packets must be transferred without tampering. It is mainly used to configure the network interfaces of security appliances that operate in the Inline mode in the form of cluster. To ensure the stability of security appliances, use them with an Inline load balancer.

Create Inline Load Balancer

To create an Inline Load Balancer, follow these steps:

1. In the VPC environment of the NAVER Cloud Platform console, navigate to > Services > Networking > Load Balancer.
2. Click the Load Balancer menu.
3. Click [Create Load Balancer] > [Create Inline Load Balancer] in order.
4. When the create Load Balancer screen appears, proceed with the following steps in order:
   • 1. Create Load Balancer
   • 2. Select Target Group
   • 3. View setting information

1. Create Load Balancer

Enter the information for the Inline Load Balancer you wish to create and click the [Next] button.

• Network: The fixed network type of Load Balancer is Private IP.
  • Private IP: it processes the load division from the internal server using a Private IP within VPC. It cannot be accessed from outside.
• Target VPC: select the VPC to create a Load Balancer in.
• Select subnet: select the Zone and Subnet to use to create the Load Balancer.

2. Select Target Group

Select the Target Group to apply load balancing and click the [Next] button.

• To do this, the Target Group need to be created in advance. If a Target Group created does not exist, click the [Create Target Group] button to create a Target Group. (SeeCreate Target Group)
• Among Target Groups created, only Target Groups that can be connected are displayed.
  • Only Target Groups with the protocol type set to IP are displayed for Inline Load Balancers.

3. View setting information

Check the setting information for Load Balancer and click the [Create Load Balancer] button.

Manage Inline Load Balancer

You can view the monitoring information of the Inline Load Balancer created in a graph.

Network Load Balancer monitoring

You can check the regularly collected information for Concurrent connection, Connection per Second, and Traffic In for the selected period each as a graph.
To check the monitoring information of the Inline Load Balancer, follow these steps:

1. In the VPC environment of the NAVER Cloud Platform console, navigate to > Services > Networking > Load Balancer.
2. Click the Load Balancer menu.
3. Select a Load Balancer to monitor and click the [Monitoring] button.
   • The basic monitoring popup window for the Load Balancer pops up and shows the monitoring information as graphs.
   • Select the period to check the monitoring information collected for the selected period.
   • Click the [Refresh] button to refresh the graphs.
   • Click the [□] button to view an extended graph and click the [x] button to download the collected monitoring information as an Excel file.

Delete Inline Load Balancer

To delete a Network Load Balancer, follow these steps:

1. In the VPC environment of the NAVER Cloud Platform console, navigate to > Services > Networking > Load Balancer.
2. Click the Load Balancer menu.
3. Select a Load Balancer to delete and click the [Delete Load Balancer] button.
4. Check the content in the delete Load Balancer popup window and click the [Delete] button.
   • The selected Load Balancer is deleted.