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The VPC Inline LB appliance therefore is a regular System VM, exactly the same as the Internal LB appliance today. Meaning it has 1 guest nic and 1 control (link-local / management) nic.

With the new proposed VpcInlineLbVm set as the Public LB provider of a VPC, when a Public IP is acquired for this VPC and LB rules are configured on this public IP, a VPC Inline LB appliance is deployed if not yet existing, and an additional guest IP is allocated and set as secondary IP on the appliance guest nic, upon which static NAT is configured from the Public IP to the secondary guest IP.  (See below outline for the detailed algorithm.)

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