Category: NSX

Blog Cloud Foundation NSX VMware
03.10.2026

VCF 9.1 → 9.1.1: “Failed to upload NSX bundle” in the NSX Upgrade Coordinator

Today I wrote a field report from a VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 to 9.1.1 maintenance upgrade: the order that matters, the error that stopped the NSX Manager upgrade, how to prove the bundle was not the problem, and what got the upgrade moving again. Abstract Prerequisites: Everything above NSX must already be on 9.1.1 Before touching NSX, be clear about where you are in the […]

Blog NSX VMware
29.09.2026

VCF 9.1: Fixing an Exhausted NSX TEP Pool

While running a Host Add Workflow in my VCF 9.1 environment, the validation step “Validate IP Address Availability for Edge Overlay (TEP) IP Assignment” failed right away with the following error: The message is pretty clear: the Host Add workflow needs 4 new tunnel endpoint (TEP) IP addresses, but the NSX IP address pool that provides them is completely used up. Every overlay-enabled transport node […]

Blog NSX VMware
24.03.2023

Introduction to NSX Advanced Load Balancer and Deployment without NSX-T

We find plenty of tutorials on how to deploy and configure the NSX Advanced Load Balancer in conjunction with NSX-T. I am one of the few who do not have NSX-T in their HomeLab, so in this tutorial I would like to briefly show you the NSX ALB deployment without NSX-T. But first let us talk about the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formaly known as […]