# How to create a pool? **To create a Pool, follow the steps below:** **Step 1:** [Login](https://customer.acecloudhosting.com/index.php?m=ace_product_register_addon\&action=login) to your account. **Step 2:** Navigate to **Networks** and then click on **Load Balancer**.
**Step 3:** Choose the load balancer for which you want to create the pool and click on the load balancer name**.**
**Step 4:** Navigate to the **Pools** tab and click **Create Pool**.
**Step 5:** Enter **Pool Details**, **Server Monitor Health** details, and click **Next.** **Note:** 1. If you have not created a Listener, you cannot create a Pool and a Monitor. 2. If you have not created a Pool, you will not be able to create a Monitor. 3. If you do not want to create a Pool and Monitor, disable the toggle and click Next.
| **Field** | **Description** | | ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Pool Name\* | Enter the name of the Pool. | | Pool Description | Enter the description of the pool. | | Pool Algorithm\* |

Select the load balancing algorithm for the pool from the below options:

  1. Least connections
  2. Round robin
  3. Source IP
| | Pool Protocol\* |

Select a protocol for the pool from the below options:

  1. HTTPS
  2. PROXY
  3. PROXYV2
  4. TCP
| | TLS Enabled | | | TLS Cipher String | Enter List of ciphers in OpenSSL format and it should be colon-separated. | | Session Persistence |

Select a JSON object specifying the session persistence for the pool from the below options:

  1. HTTP Cookie
  2. APP Cookie
  3. Source IP
| | Cookie Name\* | Enter the name of the cookie to use for session persistence. | | Monitor Name\* | Enter the name of the Health Monitor. | | Monitor Protocol\* |

Select a protocol for the health monitor from the below options:

  1. HTTP
  2. HTTPS
  3. PING
  4. TCP
  5. TLS-HELLO
  6. UDP-CONNECT
  7. SCTP
| | Max Retries Down\* | Enter the number of allowed check failures before changing the operating status of the member to ERROR. A valid value is from 1 to 10. The default is 3. | | Delay (in sec.)\* | Enter the interval, in seconds, between health checks. The default is 10. | | Max Retries\* | Enter the number of successful checks before changing the operating status of the member to ONLINE. The default is 1. | | Timeout (in sec.)\* | The time, in seconds, after which a health check times out. The default is 5. | | HTTP Method |

Select the HTTP method that the health monitor uses for requests from the below options:

  1. GET
  2. HEAD
  3. POST
  4. PUT
  5. DELETE
  6. TRACE
  7. OPTIONS
  8. PATCH
  9. CONNECT
| | Expected Codes\* | Enter the HTTP status codes expected in response from the member to declare it healthy. The default is 200. | | URL Path\* | Enter the HTTP URL path of the request sent by the monitor to test the health of a member. Must be a string that begins with a forward slash. The default URL path is /. | **Step 6**: Enter the **Backend Server** details and click **Next**. **Note:** 1. If you have not created a **Pool**, you will not be able to create **Backend Servers**. 2. If you do not want to create **Backend Servers,** disable the toggle and click **Next**.
| **Field** | **Description** | | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Add Servers\* | Select the servers from the dropdown. | | Specific IP | Enter the specific IP you want to Add and click on **Add** button. | | Name | Name of the server. | | IP Address | IP address of the server. | | Associated Subnet | Name of the subnet, associated with the server. | | Specific Port\* | Enter the specific port you want to add. | | Monitor Address | Enter an alternate IP address used for health monitoring a member. | | Monitor Port | Enter an alternate protocol port used for health monitoring a member. | | Weight | Enter the weight of a member determines the portion of requests or connections it services compared to the other members of the pool. | **Step 7:** Review your load balancer details and click the **Create** button.
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