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In this first post, I will attempt to describe the different components of the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (ALB). Following the purchase of Avi Networks by VMware in June 2019, the product Avi Vantage has been renamed as NSX Advanced Load Balancer. If you attempt to deploy the latest release 18.2.7, you will notice it still has the Avi Network branding. This will change in the near future.
NSX Advanced Load Balancer is aSoftware Defined solution that provides Application Delivery Services in an automated elastic deployment. It has an in-build best of breed operational dashboard for advanced analytics and reporting, it’s completely API driven, and supports a wide range of infrastructure and cloud providers. In this series of blogs, I will focus on the vSphere integration in my home datacenter.
Version 18.2 of the product works over distributed virtual port groups that belong to both Virtual Distributed Switch (regular VLAN networks) and Logical Switches (NSX-V VXLAN based or NSX-T GENEVE networks) as it is agnostic of underlying network infrastructure. Integration in an NSX-T network is possible today, but still requires some manual configuration steps. The automation of this process will come in a future release of NSX ALB.
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