Deleting a Dedicated Load Balancer

Scenarios

You can delete a load balancer if you on longer need it.

Back up the data if necessary. The data will be deleted immediately after you delete or unsubscribe from the load balancers and cannot be restored.

Prerequisites

To delete a load balancer, first delete the resources associated with it in the following order:

1. Delete all the forwarding policies added to HTTP and HTTPS listeners of the load balancer.
2. Delete the redirect created for each HTTP listener of the load balancer.
3. Remove all the backend servers from the backend server groups associated with each listener of the load balancer.
4. Delete all the listeners added to the load balancer.
5. Delete all backend server groups associated with each listener of the load balancer.

Deleting a Pay-per-Use Load Balancer

After a public network load balancer is deleted, its EIP will not be released and can be used by other resources.

1. Log in to the management console.
2. In the upper left corner of the page, click and select the desired region and project.
3. Click in the upper left corner to display Service List and choose Networking > Elastic Load Balance.
4. Locate the target load balancer and choose More > Delete in the Operation column.

   A confirmation dialog box is displayed.

5. In the displayed dialog box, enter DELETE.
6. Click OK.