When a user uploads an ISO/OVF/OVA from their desktop to VCF Automation (VCFA) Content Library, the file is temporarily stored in the Transfer Spooling Area (TSA) that resides locally within VCFA before it is finally transferred to the destination vCenter Server.

By default, VCFA uses an embedded object store backed by SeaweedFS to hold the temporary user files, which are stored in 64MB chunks. The size of the SeaweedFS volumes will be based on the VCFA deployment mode (single node vs multi-node for HA). A total of three volumes (3 replicas) will always be configured regardless of the deployment mode for VCFA and the total usable storage capacity is sum of these three volumes.

• Single Node, each volume is 75GB
• Multi-Node (Medium), each volume is 150GB
• Multi-Node (Large), each volume is 200GB

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I recently demonstrated how to automate the configuration of the VCF Automation (VCFA) Provider Portal using the new Terraform Provider for VCFA. You can also use the same provider to configure your VCFA Organization Portals.

In this blog post, I will use the Terraform Provider for VCFA (TF4VCFA) to configure a specific VCFA Organization Portal with an External Identity Provider (IdP), which can be super helpful if you need to manage multiple IdPs for each VCFA Organizations. The current release of the TF4VCFA only supports configuring an OIDC or LDAP resource, but VCFA does have support for OIDC, LDAP and SAML IdPs.

Since I use Keycloak as my IdP of choice, I will be demonstrating how to setup the OIDC IdP within VCFA.

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