With the announcement of the deprecation of VMware Identity Manager (vIDM, formerly known as Workspace One Access), support for vIDM in NSX is also being deprecated. This is the result of adopting a common infrastructure across all VCF components for single sign-on and integration with external Identity Providers using VMware Identity Broker (vIDB). Support for vIDM will continue to be available and supported in NSX until it is removed in a future release. Users should plan t

Many enterprise data centers do not allow direct internet access from the internal network for security reasons. An HTTP proxy allows VCF components (like SDDC Manager) and VKS clusters to download necessary patches, update bundles, and container images from external online repositories or private registries securely. An HTTP proxy for VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is primarily used to provide network isolation and security , enablin

Effective resource management is a critical challenge in virtualized environments. VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) plays a key role in balancing workloads across hosts in a cluster. Among its many features, shares and reservations stand out as essential tools for controlling how resources are allocated to virtual machines (VMs). Understanding how these settings work can help administrators ensure fair resource distribution, maintain performance, and avoi

Modern applications designed for enterprise organizations have specific system availability demands that are critical for ensuring...