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Whether you are new or experienced in different VMware technologies, they are not always making it easy to understand the terminology. Using the same terminology in different, but related products can sometimes lead to difficult situations during technical (customer) sessions.When talking about NSX in general, I think one of the most common mistakes are made…

It’s that time of the year again: from 7th to 10th of November 2022, VMware Explore takes place. You can call the event the successor of VMworld, or maybe even better: the event of the year about the next chapter in the vision of VMware. Since I joined ITQ in 2019, I was only lucky…

Background I’m now almost 3 years (full-time) working with VMware technologies. And since the beginning I’ve succeeded and achieved multiple exams and VCP badges. But never ever have I tried the “next” step by going for a VMware Advanced Professional (VCAP) exam. But now that time has come. I wanted to prove myself that I’ve…

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…

About NSX-T backups and restore there are already a lot of documents and blog posts, but still I would like to add an additional topic on top of it. What if you need to restore your NSX-T environment during an upgrade? The past year a lot of new NSX-T versions were released. Think about NSX-T…

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…

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…

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…

The time has come… It already has been announced for a while, but as from the 16th of January 2022 will NSX for vSphere will be out of general support. Technical guidance expires one year later: the 16 of January 2023. As from then NSX-V is officially out of support. What does it exactly mean?…