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VCF 9.1 - Updated Method to Reset Identity Broker from previously managed VCF Operations for VCF Single Sign-On (SSO)

05.17.2026 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

Over the weekend, I had to re-deploy a portion of my VCF 9.1 Fleet, including VCF Operations, VCF Management Services, VCF License Server, SDDC Manager and VCF Automation, due to some workflows I was testing.

Luckily, my core SDDC components vCenter, NSX and vSAN was not touched and I could simply re-use those components by running the VCF Installer Import/Converge process to quickly rebuild my VCF 9.1 Fleet!

Prior to deleting VCF Operations, I had VCF Single Sign-On (SSO) configured and I wanted to make sure the core SDDC components were properly cleaned up. I successfully ran through the VCF SSO unjoin operation for all components and cleaned up the vCenter Server Advanced Setting (config.OPERATIONS.vcf.sso.ops.cluster.id), which was required with VCF 9.0.x before you could add it to a new VCF SSO configuration.


After my VCF 9.1 Fleet was re-deployed, the first thing I wanted to go setup was VCF SSO and I noticed the configuration button was grayed out and it had the following message:

No VCF instance available due to one of the following: no existing instance, invalid license, version below 9.0, setup in progress, already configured via another Operations or running ELM.

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Categories // VCF Operations, VMware Cloud Foundation Tags // VCF 9.1

Automating VCF 9.0 Single Sign-On (SSO) with OIDC-based Identity Provider

04.10.2026 by William Lam // 2 Comments

Configuring VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Single Sign-On (SSO), introduced in VCF 9.0, can be quite lengthy, especially when you go through the workflow for the first time.


For my lab setup, I use Keycloak, a popular and free OIDC-based IdP, and have documented a step-by-step guide for using it with VCF SSO.

Even as an experienced user of VCF SSO, I find the configuration can still take several minutes, depending on your familiarity with the UI inputs. This is something I have wanted to automate for some time, but it meant digging into the private API calls used by the VCF Operations UI.

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Categories // VCF Operations, VMware Cloud Foundation Tags // VCF 9.0

Simplify License Management across VCF Operations Fleet & Standalone Deployment for Monitoring

03.05.2026 by William Lam // 3 Comments

Within a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 fleet, a single VCF Operations instance provides centralized license management and fleet management capabilities for all managed VCF instances.


That said, additional Standalone VCF Operations 9.0 instances can also be deployed for monitoring only use cases, which is a scenario that has been coming up more frequently with customers.

Although the VCF 9.0 Licensing documentation briefly references this supported use case, there is not much details on how this actually works. After getting a quick primer on this use case from fellow colleague Jared Burns and the VCF Licensing PM, I thought I would put together a quick blog post using some visuals I had created to help explain how this scenario can be setup.

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Categories // VCF Operations, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation Tags // VCF 9.0

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