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Identifying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) managed service accounts in vCenter Server

10.30.2025 by William Lam // 1 Comment

When users log in to a vCenter Server to manage roles and permissions within a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 environment, they may notice several accounts that already have vSphere permissions assigned.


This might come as a surprise, especially if you do not recall creating these users, let alone granting them privileges within vCenter Server.

A large majority of the user accounts that you see are internal to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) and represents the different application services running within the VCSA. There are also a handful of VCF accounts that are automatically created to enable communication between the various VCF components, but at the end of the day these are all service accounts that is either managed by vCenter Server or VCF.

With that said, it might be useful to understand which of these accounts are service accounts, so organizations can properly audit their environment for compliance and configuration management.

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

Configuring VCF Automation (VCFA) Organization Portal OIDC IdP using Terraform Provider for VCFA

10.28.2025 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

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

Flexible Combinations with VCF Fleet Deployment Models 

10.27.2025 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

When deploying a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Fleet, users can choose from two different deployment models: Simple (one-node) or High-Availability (3-node) within the VCF Installer, which applies to the VCF Automation, VCF Operations and NSX Manager components.


Here is a quick visual that represents the two different deployment models:


While the VCF Installer UI only provides two deployment options, the underlying VCF platform can actually support a combination of simple and HA deployment for the individual components based on your needs.

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

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William is Distinguished Platform Engineering Architect in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Division at Broadcom. His primary focus is helping customers and partners build, run and operate a modern Private Cloud using the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform.

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