HAProxy is a free opensource load balancer that is supported for use with VMware VCF Operations (formerly VMware Aria Operations). Here are the steps you need to install and configure it on a Debian VM. This configuration was for a lab deployment and may not be optimised for production. Use at your own risk!
EDIT: My colleague Ryan Johnson has very kindly written a shell script to perform the steps. Code available here.
Add an interface to the Debian VM for the VCF Operations VIP
vi /etc/network/interfaces
# Insert the following and save the changes substituting the VLANs/Subnets with your own
# VCF OPs VIP
auto eth1.1110
iface eth1.1110 inet static
address 10.11.10.30
netmask 255.255.255.0
mtu 9000
# Restart network service
systemctl restart networking.service
Install HAProxy
apt-get install haproxy
# Backup default haproxy.cfg cp /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg.bak
Create a new haproxy.cfg file with the following contents
# Configuration file to load balance VCF Operations
#global parameters
global
log 127.0.0.1 local2
chroot /var/lib/haproxy
pidfile /var/run/haproxy.pid
maxconn 2000
user haproxy
group haproxy
daemon
stats socket /var/lib/haproxy/stats
ssl-server-verify none
#default parameters unless otherwise specified
defaults
log global
mode http
option httplog
option tcplog
option dontlognull
timeout connect 5000ms
timeout client 50000ms
timeout server 50000ms
#listener settings for stats webpage can be optional but highly recommended listen stats :9090
balance
mode http
stats enable
stats auth admin:admin
stats uri /
stats realm Haproxy\ Statistics
#front settings in this case we bind to all addresses on system or specify an interface
frontend vrops_frontend_secure
bind 10.11.10.30:443
mode tcp
option tcplog
default_backend vrops_backend_secure
#backend configuration of receiving servers containing tcp-checks health checks and hashing
backend vrops_backend_secure
mode tcp
option tcplog
balance source
hash-type consistent
option tcp-check
tcp-check connect port 443 ssl
tcp-check send GET\ /suite-api/api/deployment/node/status?services=api&services=adminui&services=ui\ HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n
tcp-check expect rstring ONLINE
server node1 10.11.10.31:443 check inter 15s check-ssl maxconn 140 fall 3 rise 3
server node2 10.11.10.32:443 check inter 15s check-ssl maxconn 140 fall 3 rise 3
server node3 10.11.10.33:443 check inter 15s check-ssl maxconn 140 fall 3 rise 3
Restart haproxy service
systemctl restart haproxy
You should now be able to browse to https://<aria-operations-vip-fqdn