1. A method comprising: generating, by a computer system, a user interface for deploying a virtual IP address (VIP) on a load balancer in a network environment, wherein the network environment includes a plurality of load balancers, and wherein the user interface presents a plurality of criteria for selecting one of the plurality of load balancers; receiving, by the computer system from a user, a selection of one or more of the plurality of criteria; collecting, by the computer system from each load balancer in the plurality of load balancers, statistics that are relevant to the one or more criteria; and selecting, by the computer system, a load balancer from among the plurality of load balancers based on the one or more criteria and the collected statistics.