Once all the features and configurations specific to the Enterprise edition are removed, the Avi Load Balancer can be switched to the desired licensing tier.

You can change the licensing tier from the Enterprise edition to the Essential edition as follows.

  1. Navigate to Administration > Licensing.

  2. Click gear icon next to Licensing.

  3. Select Essentials License.

  4. Click Save.

After changing the licensing tier to the essentials edition, SEs do not require any licenses. The Enterprise Service Units are freed up and are no more used when Avi Load Balancer Controller runs in the essentials edition. The Controller will start enforcing essentials edition feature restrictions.

The new System-Default objects are created according to the Avi Load Balancer Essentials for Tanzu edition support.

The events related to the system objects and the configuration changes are available under Operations > Events. Various events related to the deletion of network profiles, WAF Profiles, and so on are listed here.