5. vCloud Resource Design : 5.11 vApp Load balancing : 5.11.1 Background
   
5.11.1 Background
Within the vCloud Director environment there is nothing to stop all of the traditional IP based load balancing schemes from working. You can even run multicast-based load balancing schemes with some caveats. Global load balancers can also be used with vCloud Director hosted virtual machines as backend servers do not need any special configuration options.
VMware vCloud Director 5.1 offers an options for self-service load balancing using the vCloud Networking and Security Edge built-in load balancer.