VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™

VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ (the “Service Offering”) provides multi-cloud load
balancing, web application firewall, application analytics, and container ingress services from the
data center to the cloud with enhanced operations delivered through SaaS. NSX Advanced Load
Balancer can be deployed in a customer’s own environment and/or consumed as a hosted
service.
The Service Offering has four main components:

1.Software Data Plane (VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer Service Engines) - provide
the data plane functionality for local and global load balancing, application security,
container ingress services, IPAM and DNS.

2.Software Control Plane (VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer Controller™) –
responsible for placement of the Service Engines (load balancing data plane entities),
elasticity, scale, automation, analytics, and resiliency.

3.Cloud Services (VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer cloud services) - enables value
added operational capabilities to the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer deployments
delivered through the cloud services portal.

4.Hosted Controller Service (VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Hosted Controller
Service) – allows customers to use the Software Control Plane (NSX Advanced Load
Balancer Controller) hosted and managed by VMware. This is an optional service included
with the Service Offering, and requires customers to opt-in to use the service.