Add a NSX Advanced Load Balancer Instance for Metering in vCloud Usage Meter

To meter the product consumption data of NSX Advanced Load Balancer, you must add the NSX Advanced Load Balancer instance to vCloud Usage Meter.

vCloud Usage Meter supports the metering of standalone NSX Advanced Load Balancer instances, NSX Advanced Load Balancer management clusters, and NSX Advanced Load Balancer instances associated with VMware Cloud Director.

Note: To meter NSX Advanced Load Balancer management cluster, add only one of the instances that are part of the cluster.

Prerequisites

Verify that the NSX Advanced Load Balancer roles have the following permissions.

• read tenant
• read SEG
• read systemsettings
• read controller
• read cloud

Note: You must grant the permissions to every tenant that has service engines.

For more information, see the User Roles section in the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Administration Guide.

Procedure

1. In the main menu bar of the vCloud Usage Meter Web interface, click Products.
2. In the left pane, select Networking > NSX Advanced Load Balancer.
3. On the NSX Advanced Load Balancer page, click Add .
4. In the Endpoint text box, enter the host name or IP address of the NSX Advanced Load Balancer instance.
5. In the Username and Password text boxes, enter the NSX Advanced Load Balancer credentials.
6. Click Add.

Results

You successfully added NSX Advanced Load Balancer to the list of instances. If an error occurs, a message appears in the Status column in the NSX Advanced Load Balancer list of instances.