Installing And Configuring The Load Balancer; Verify That Ace Instances Are Using The Load Balancer - VMware ACE Management Server Administrator's Manual

3 Join all of the certificate chain files into one file.
If you can, eliminate the duplicate entries.
4 Convert the server's SSL certificates to PEM format.
5 Add the server's SSL certificates in PEM format to the certificate chain file.
6 On the Custom SSL Certificates tab, upload the SSL certificate file, the SSL key file, and the certificate
chain file:
a Specify the key file in the Server Private Key field.
b Specify the certificate file in the Server Public Certificate field.
c Click Upload certificates.
d Click Apply and click Restart.
Complete this step for every ACE Management Server in your farm to upload files to each ACE
Management Server.

Installing and Configuring the Load Balancer

ACE Management Server uses HTTPS to communicate with its clients. You can use any load balancing
solution that supports HTTPS with ACE Management Server.
Install the load balancer and configure port 443 (HTTP over SSL) for load balancing. Do not configure
port 8080 or 8000 for load balancing. These two ports are used for configuration. Port 8080 is the virtual
appliance configuration port and 8000 is the ACE Management Server configuration port.

Verify That ACE Instances Are Using the Load Balancer

After you configure multiple ACE Management Server instances to work with a load balancer and install the
necessary SSL certificates, perform verification. Verify that ACE instances can connect to ACE Management
Server instances by using the address of the load‐balancer.
Before you begin, restart Workstation so that Workstation can download the SSL certificate when a connection
to the ACE Management Server is established.
To verify that ACE instances are using the load balancer
1 Create an ACE‐enabled virtual machine.
2 Open the policy editor.
3 Select Policy Update Frequency.
4 Select Disable Offline Usage and click OK.
5 Remove the first ACE Management Server from the load balancing configuration so that all traffic goes to
the second ACE Management Server.
6 Preview the ACE instance.
This preview creates an instance on the ACE Management Server.
7 Close the ACE Player.
8 Remove the second ACE Management Server from the load‐balancing configuration and add the first
ACE Management Server back to the configuration.
All traffic goes to the first ACE Management Server.
9 Preview the same ACE instance again, and when prompted whether to reinstantiate or reuse the instance,
select Use Existing Instance.
If the instance starts successfully, both servers are using the same SSL certificate.
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