This section documents the steps to onboard an NSX Advanced Load Balancer with Cloud Services subscription.

  1. Open the onboarding email titled ‘Complete your registration: Welcome to NSX Advanced Load Balancer with Cloud Services’ and click Complete your Registration Now button.

  2. Sign-in to VMware Cloud Services Portal (CSP) using your credentials. If you do not have a CSP account, click Create Your VMware Account and complete the account registration.

  3. Select the NSX Advanced Load Balancer with Cloud Services subscription. At this point, if you want to invite other members to complete the onboarding process and manage this subscription, click Edit and add the required email IDs.

  4. Select or create a CSP Organization where your NSX Advanced Load Balancer with Cloud Services SaaS subscription will be placed.

    Note:

    Mapping a subscription to a CSP Organization is irreversible. Choose your CSP organization carefully.

  5. You have successfully onboarded your NSX Advanced Load Balancer with Cloud Services subscription. You should now be able to see 'NSX Advanced Load Balancer with Cloud Services' under the ‘Services’ section of your CSP organization chosen/ created previously.

Request for a NSX Advanced Load Balancer with Cloud Services Trial

  1. Customer requests for a trial of NSX Advanced Load Balancer with Cloud Services through their VMware account representative.

  2. VMware sends a Trial Invite email to the customer with a pre-signed link to start the trial.

  3. Customer starts the trial by using the pre-signed link and assigning the trial to a CSP Organization of choice.

    1. Customer can forward the invite to another team member to complete this step.

    2. Customer can choose to create a new CSP Organization if required.

  4. VMware activates the trial by depositing trial capacity in the mapped CSP Organization in the Central Licensing service provided by NSX Advanced Load Balancer Cloud Services.

  5. VMware sends a Trial Activation email to the customer and NSX Advanced Load Balancer with Cloud Services is now ready for trial.

Renewal of a NSX Advanced Load Balancer with Cloud Services Subscription

The following are the steps to renew a NSX Advanced Load Balancer with Cloud Services subscription:

  1. The customer renews NSX Advanced Load Balancer with Cloud Services subscription.

  2. VMware updates the renewed capacity and the new expiry date in the Central Licensing service provided by NSX Advanced Load Balancer Cloud Services.