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Supported chipsets for the USB Network Native Driver for ESXi Fling

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A longtime community favorite, the USB Network Native Driver for ESXi Fling makes it super easy for users to expand additional networking capabilities for ESXi-x86.

While helping a customer recently, I realized that we did not have a published list of supported USB Network adaptors (VID/DID) for the Fling anywhere, especially after transitioning into the Broadcom system post Day 2.

Note: A quick heads up, the Fling downloads will be re-homed to the Broadcom Support Portal (BSP) under the Free Downloads next month. For more details, please see the announcement posted on the Flings Community.

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vCenter Identity Federation with Authelia

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Gotta catch them all!? 😂

Looks like I will be adding another identity provider to my existing collection of IdPs (Authentik, KeyCloak, Synology SSO, Pocket ID, Zitadel and Kanidm) that can be used with vCenter Server and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Identity Federation.

Authelia is another free and self-hosted IdP solution, which also supports Time-based one-time password (TOTP) out of the box and all configurations are managed in a couple of configuration files as there is no administrative web UI.

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vCenter Server Identity Federation with Kanidm

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Looks like I will be expanding my collection of identity providers (Authentik, KeyCloak, Synology SSO, Pocket ID and Zitadel) that can be used with vCenter Server and/or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Identity Federation!

Fellow colleague, Eric Gray just made me aware of another self-hosted IdP called Kanidm, which he had success setting up and thought I might be interested.


Kanidm is another basic free IdP that allows users to easily setup to play with vCenter Server and/or VCF Identity Federation, but what makes this IdP unique is that it is completely managed using a CLI, there is no web interface like ones listed above.

Additionally, Kanidm supports both traditional username/password authentication and modern passkeys. If you decide to use traditional passwords, Kanidm does require setting up Time-based One-Time Passwords (TOTP) using something like Google Authenticator and provides another factor of authentication, which is pretty neat!

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