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Similar to Configuring vSphere Supervisor to use VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Identity Broker (IDB) for external identity federation, Harbor also supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity providers (IdPs). This would allow Harbor or any components that support OIDC-based IdP to leverage our existing VCF IDB instance that is already integrated with VCF Single Sign-On (SSO), reduci...

I often redeploy my VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) lab environment for a variety of reasons, from testing customer scenarios to testing the next version of our software. Because I have fully automated the ESX installation and configuration process in my lab, reinstalling ESX is a trivial task that takes less than 5 minutes from power-on […]

A couple of weeks ago, I received an interesting email from a reader who had observed high CPU utilization after upgrading VCF Automation (VCFA) to the latest VCF 9.1 release. They were running VCF 9.1 on the popular Minisforum MS-A2 platform, which uses AMD Zen4/Zen5 (Ryzen) consumer processors which are not supported on the Broadcom […]

With VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, the Distributed Transit Gateway (DTGW) connectivity model now supports NSX stateful network services through the Virtual Network Appliance (VNA) cluster. This makes it easy for VI Admins to provision Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), which can then be used to deploy vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) workloads using either vCenter Server […]

Prior to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, users could choose whether to apply an ESX update across all or a selected set of vSphere Clusters, but there was no additional granularity for selecting specific ESX hosts within a cluster. This has been a frequently requested capability, especially for excluding specific ESX hosts from an update […]