VMware NSX 4.2 Release (Entitlement)

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With the release of NSX 4.2 together with the General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2, there are some important points to take note of.

With NSX 4.2, overlay support for bare metal servers are no longer available. Moving forward, NSX will only support for virtual machine which is running on vSphere.

The NSX Network introspection for Security will be deprecated in 4.x and will no longer be support after.

NSX Manager APIs and NSX Advanced UIs will deprecated in this version.

Just to name a few. But one major change in this release is an entitlement change in regards to NSX Native Load Balancer (NLB) or NSX Load Balancer.

Entitlement Change for the NSX Load Balancer

In a future major release of NSX, VMware intends to change the entitlement of the built-in NSX load balancer (a.k.a. NSX-T Load Balancer). This load balancer will only support load balancing for Aria Automation, IaaS Control Plane (Supervisor Cluster), and load balancing of VCF infrastructure components.

VMware recommends that customers who need general purpose and advanced load balancing features purchase Avi Load Balancer. Avi provides a superset of the NSX load balancing functionality including GSLB, advanced analytics, container ingress, application security, and WAF.

Existing entitlement to the built-in NSX load balancer for customers using NSX 4.x will remain for the duration of the NSX 4.x release series.


What this means, moving forward, the NSX NLB, will only be used for management component usage and not for workload deployment. Instead, AVI would need to be purchase for use for workload.

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