With the introduction of VCF9, many organizations are opting to protect their workloads using geo-redundancy methods such as MultiZone workload domain technologies. Using a MultiZone design brings considerable availability benefits, but also introduces unique challenges, such as increased latency caused by the physical locations being further apart from each other. Checking latency between all core VCF components are critical to the success of a project like this. We should a

VCF Automation is the cornerstone component that provides advanced application automation and multi-tenancy capabilities within the VCF platform. The VCF-A system is deployed into a "VMSP" cluster. VMSP stands for VMware Management Services Platform. It is a Kubernetes-native control plane used in modern VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployments to host and manage core private cloud automation and operational services. Key Aspects of VMSP Function: VMSP runs as a cluster of c

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