NSX Advanced Load Balancer NSX Cloud connector not releasing the External IP back to NSX after VSVIPs deletion preventing NSX from allocating available IPs from the block

Products

• VMware NSX
• VMware Avi Load Balancer

Issue/Introduction

Cloud connector not giving back the External IP back to NSX after VSVIPs deletion
NSX IP Block Statistics still shows ranges (sometimes ranges that are just one IP i.e. 192.168.0.0-192.168.0.0) are used that were removed in AVI

Environment

vCenter 9.x
NSX 9.x
AVI 31.1.2-2p1, 32.1.1

Cause

AVI not sending cleanup command for released IP blocks to NSX

Resolution

Fixed in AVI 32.1.1 9117 for future IP deletions

To release the deleted IPs please open a support case with Broadcom Support and refer to this KB article.

For more information, see Creating and managing Broadcom support cases.