After spending a few days playing with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB) APIs, I am happy to share my latest automation lab deployment script for deploying vSphere with Tanzu using the new NSX ALB which was introduced with the latest vSphere 7.0 Update 2 release.
🙌 BOOM!!!
Fully Automated vSphere with @VMwareTanzu using the new @vmwarensx Advanced Load Balancer introduced in vSphere 7.0 Update 2 Lab Deployment in just 32 minutes! 🔥
Still need to clean up some things, but this beats clicking around the UI! My 🤲 thanks me pic.twitter.com/hN32Qk3oDc
— William Lam (@lamw) March 29, 2021
Lab Deployment Automation
You can find the new automation script along with all the details at the following Github Repo: https://github.com/lamw/vsphere-with-tanzu-nsx-advanced-lb-automated-lab-deployment#enable-workload-management
In my environment, it took about ~32 minutes for the deployment to finish, but YMMV based on the performance of your underlying hardware.
Workload Management Automation
In addition to the automated lab deployment script above, I have also updated my community VMware.WorkloadManagement module to add support for enabling Workload Management on a vSphere Cluster using NSX ALB. This is introduced as a new function creatively called New-WorkloadManagement3. You use the Get-Help cmdlet to get a list of supported arguments or you can take a look at this example.
Great work William!
Hi William,
I am getting an error when Creating subnet mapping for Service Engine Network and stopped with the below error messages.
Failed to create subnet mapping for DVPG-Supervisor-Management-Network
Write-Error: ({“detail”: “Method ‘PUT’ not allowed.”}.Exception.Message)
Any ideas what can cause this issue?