Deleting a Load Balancer

Scenarios

You can delete a load balancer if you do not need it any longer.

A deleted load balancer cannot be recovered.

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

Prerequisites

Delete the resources configured for the load balancer in the following sequence:

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 Load Balancer

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. Hover on in the upper left corner to display Service List and choose Network > Elastic Load Balance.
4. Locate the target load balancer and choose More > Delete in the Operation column.

   A confirmation dialog box is displayed. Select Release the EIP as required.

5. Click Yes.