NSX Advanced Load Balancer is available in three editions:
NSX Advanced Load Balancer Enterprise with Cloud Services edition, which provides all features that VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer has to offer along with value added SaaS delivered Cloud Services (Available from NSX Advanced Load Balancer v21.1.3 or later).
NSX Advanced Load Balancer Enterprise edition, which provides full enterprise grade load balancing including multi-cloud integration, active-active high availability, Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), Web Application Firewall (WAF), and so on.
NSX Advanced Load Balancer Basic edition, which provides equivalent functionality to the native NSX-T Load Balancer available in NSX-T Data Center
VMware recommends the customers who have purchased NSX-T Data Center licenses which have Load Balancing capability to deploy the NSX Advanced Load Balancer in the Basic edition as an alternative to the existing NSX-T Data Center Load Balancer.
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Design Decision |
Design Justification |
Design Implication |
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AVI-CTLR-021 |
Choose the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Enterprise with Cloud Services licensing tier.
Note:
1. New VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer deployments running v21.1.3 or later will be setup by default in Enterprise with Cloud Services licensing tier. 2. If running v21.1.2 or earlier, choose the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Enterprise licensing tier. |
Provides full-featured access to the NSX Advanced Load Balancer platform.
Note:
If running v21.1.3 or later, alternative is to either use: i) Enterprise edition licensing tier. This provides a full-featured enterprise feature set but does not give access to Cloud Services and advanced App Security features. ii) Basic edition licensing tier. This provides equivalent functionality of NSX-T Data Center native Load Balancer. If running v21.1.2 or earlier, alternative is to use the Basic edition licensing tier. This provides equivalent functionality of NSX-T Data Center native Load Balancer. |
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