The ordering rule: VPC, VPCAttachment, LoadBalancer, then the namespace - swap steps 3 and 4 and VIPs pend forever

The load balancer that must exist before the namespace

VIPs pending forever, a retryable error that never stops retrying, and an ordering rule the docs don’t tell you: in a self-service NSX VPC, the LBService must exist before the namespace that will use it.

16 September 2026 · 5 min · Adam Stretton