Tag: Load Balancer
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VKS Workload Deployment Models, Ingress Controllers and Registries (VCAP-VKS Exam Series, Part 27)
Objective 4.12 asks you to build workload deployment models across pods, VMs, ingress controllers and private registries on a VKS cluster. Here is the runbook, the Avi VIP arithmetic that decides the answer, and why the official Contour tutorial fails on a current cluster.
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Creating VKS Supervisor Clusters with NSX VPC, Segment, vDS and Avi (VCAP-VKS Exam Series, Part 16)
Three workload networks and three load balancer providers give nine pairings on paper and five legal ones in the product. Here is the activation matrix, the preflight per path, and the failures that stall a Supervisor at 68 percent.
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VKS Load Balancer Sizing and Its Effect on Supervisor Functionality (VCAP-VKS Exam Series, Part 11)
Objective 3.1 is not about throughput. Load balancer sizing on VCF 9.0 decides whether a Supervisor enables at all, and this Part maps every shortfall to the exact symptom it produces.
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Supervisor Networking with VDS, NSX Segments or VPCs and Load Balancing (VCAP-VKS Exam Series, Part 6)
Objective 2.2 is not a load balancer comparison. Your workload network picks the shortlist, and on NSX VPC the shortlist has one name on it. Mapping table, discovery commands and the rebuild that taught me to ask the security question first.
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