VCF 9 Identity Broker: Retiring VMware Identity Manager for Unified Fleet Authentication
Introduction If Fleet collapsed three consoles into one control plane, the Identity Broker does the same job for authentication. VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) is superseded in VCF 9 by a fleet-native component called the Identity Broker. The new component takes over VCF single sign-on going forward, though Broadcom doesn’t force a rip-and-replace cutover: existing vIDM instances can keep running (still managed via VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.x) as an authentication source for components like VCF Automation while you migrate the rest of the fleet on your own schedule. This post covers what the Identity Broker actually is, the two ways you can deploy it, and what a real migration from vIDM looks like, based on Broadcom’s official 9.1 documentation. ...