Load Balancer
senhasegura® has a self-made load-balancer to interface all senhasegura® instances running into cluster schema. The senhasegura® Load-balancer is a ready-to-deploy and also a ready-to-use solution, configured to give the best performance over senhasegura® functionalities.
Installation and usage
Technical informations
The senhasegura® Load-balancer minimum requirements are:
4GB RAM;
2 vCPUs (4 vCPUs recommended);
40GB vHD;
It will use the same SSL certificate installed into senhasegura® instances. There is no need to install a particular SSL certificate for the load-balancer.
As it is a tailor-made product for balancing the senhasegura® , the senhasegura® Load-balancer has a very specific optimization, and should not be used to balance other applications. Therefore, we do not offer the option of changing the balancing method and/or monitoring methods to the customer. Its use the least connection algorithm for balancing mode.

Using senhasegura® Load-balancer you can also decide which service should be balanced. A company which uses SSH connections more than the others proxies, can isolate dedicate instances for a better performance.
OVA installation
First you have to deploy the senhasegura® Load-balancer OVA into your hypervisor using the recommended requirements;
At the first boot, you will be presented to the following screen:
First boot screen Following the banner instruction, do the login using the
setup
user and the random generated password also displayed at the banner;You will be redirected to a text editor to complete the load-balancer network configuration. Follow the fields descriptions to fill correctly;
Load-balancer network configuration First you should configure the load-balancer network configuration. Into this step you also have to register all load-balancers IPs;
All load-balancer instances IPs Next, you have to configure all senhasegura® application instances. This configuration should be the same on every senhasegura® Load-balancer instances;
Into this step you can decide to balance all senhasegura® instances services or just senhasegura® Proxy services;
All senhasegura® application instances to be balanced Save and exit the text-editor;
The load-balancer will reboot and the login banner will be presented again with all variables configured;
caution
If you decided to deploy more than one senhasegura® Load-balancer instance, you should keep all senhasegura® Load-balancer instances with the same senhasegura® members configuration order!