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…
Clarify NSX-v Edge vs. NSX-T Edge vs. vCD Edge Gateway
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…
Get 100% ready for an awesome VMware Explore 2022 adventure
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…
My First Personal and Uncensored VCAP-NV Deploy Experience (3V0-41.22)
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…
[Quick Tip] Failed to apply BASIC license – NSX ALB (Avi Vantage)
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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-T Backup and Restore During Upgrade Procedure
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…
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…
Do I live my IT(Q) dream job?
Check out my blogpost on the ITQ website about living my IT(Q) dream job! It describes how I feel building out my career with ITQ as employer. You like my adventure at ITQ? Please check how you can determine your own adventure! Statement: The above article is 100% my personal experience.
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…