Tag: VCF Identity Broker
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Identity, SSO and Custom Roles in VCF Automation: Wiring Up the VCF Identity Broker and RBAC (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 37)
How identity actually flows in VCF Automation 9: the VCF Identity Broker and VCF SSO for the provider plane, per-organization external IdPs for tenants, the OIDC claim-mapping that silently breaks group membership, and custom roles, rights bundles and global roles for RBAC, with a real vmware/vcfa Terraform example.
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VCF 9 Zero Trust Security Architecture: Identity, Segmentation and Platform Integrity (VCF 9 Series, Part 27)
Zero trust on VCF 9 is an architecture, not a checkbox. Here are the four enforcement planes, how they map to real VCF components, and the design calls that actually matter.
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VCF 9 Certificate, Identity and Backup Failures and How to Fix Them (VCF 9 Series, Part 22)
Certificates, identity and backup all moved in VCF 9. Here are the failures that actually bite in production, with the symptom, the real cause and the fix for each.
Architect’s Toolkit
PJ’s Tools
VMware Cloud Foundation
- VCF Documentation
- VCF 9 Planning & Preparation Workbook
- VCF Bill of Materials (BoM)
- VMware Compatibility Guide
- VMware Interoperability Matrix
- VMware Configuration Maximums
- VMware Ports & Protocols
- VMware Hands-on Labs
- RVTools Download
Nutanix
AI & Cloud-Native Platform
- NVIDIA Build (Model Catalog)
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise Reference Architecture
- NVIDIA NIM Performance Benchmarking
- NVIDIA NGC Catalog
- NeMo Microservices Helm Chart
- Helm Charts Repository
- Hugging Face Models
Architecture & Design
About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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