Insufficient licensable resources available to create Service Engine – NSX Advanced Load Balancer
Problem While playing around with NSX-T Advanced Load Balancer, I noticed the following alarm: Insufficient licensable resources available to create Service Engine. But how is it getting triggered and most importantly how to solve it? The description is very straightforward: you don’t have enough licenses to spin up more Service Engines. You can check your…
[Quick Tip] Failed to apply BASIC license – NSX ALB (Avi Vantage)
With this short post I just would like to share an issue I encountered while installing NSX ALB with a BASIC tier license. I was not able to configure the NSX-T license when using the BASIC Licensing Tier.Together with the above error, I also had the following license violations: Object StatediffOperation is not allowed under…
NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Vantage) Upgrade Checklist
Upgrades, upgrades and again upgrades, nowadays it’s all about software upgrades. They are always announced as an easy and quick process, but is this true? In case of NSX Advanced Load Balancer, I can confirm. The upgrade process itself is very easy and straightforward. But nevertheless upgrades always needs some preparation. Therefore here some short…
Config_checker.py crash – NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Vantage)
After upgrading an AVI load balancer environment from 18.2.6 to 21.1.3, the following issue popped up in the CLI. This error was only visible in the controller CLI whenever a backup was taken. It had to be related. And so it was. Every time before a backup is taken, some configuration validation is being done…
Virtual Service HA and Placement Options – NSX ALB (Avi Vantage)
Before you can start deploying a new Virtual Service (VS) on an VMware NSX Advanced Loadbalancer, you get plenty of settings you can enable/disable or choose from. One of the first things you need to do after deploying your controller(s) is creating a Service Engine Group. These settings will define how all new Virtual Services…
Part 3: One-Arm Topology – The Impact Of The Load Balancing Service on your NSX-T Data Center Data Flow
Impact of the One-Arm topology on your NSX-T data flow Now that you know the different supported topologies and the exact impact on the data flow for the inline topology, let’s continue with the exact impact on the data flow for the one-arm topology. Have you missed the first two parts? Check them out: The…
Part 2: Inline Topology – The Impact Of The Load Balancing Service on your NSX-T Data Center Data Flow
Impact of the Inline topology on your NSX-T data flow Now that you know the different supported topologies, it would be good to know what the exact impact is on the data flow itself. How much traffic is passing through the load balancer and how is traffic passing through the different NSX-T Data Center components.…
Part 1 – The Impact Of The Load Balancing Service on your NSX-T Data Center Data Flow
About the installation and configuration of NSX-T Data Center and its features, you can find more than enough information in the official VMware documentation or other subject-specific blogs of NSX-T Experts. But what is now the impact of the load balancing service on your NSX-T Data Center environment? How does it affects the data flow?…