| copyright | lastupdated | keywords | subcollection | ||
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2020-08-13 |
load balancer, order |
loadbalancer-service |
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The {{site.data.keyword.loadbalancer_full}} service helps customers improve availability of their business-critical applications by distributing traffic among multiple application server instances, and by forwarding traffic to healthy instances only. {: shortdesc}
To use {{site.data.keyword.loadbalancer_full}}, you require two main items:
- An account with IBM - IBMid{: external}
- An IBM server, either Bare Metal or Virtual Server Instance (VSI)
If you need assistance in obtaining an IBMid account, contact your IBM Sales representative for extra guidance.
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To get started with {{site.data.keyword.loadbalancer_full}}, see Using an elastic load balancer for server load-balancing overview.