Excuse me if this is answered elswhere; my limit for searching and poking sprawling forums and knowledgebases for answers is 1 hour.

It appears there is a fundamental change in the management software between these two versions.  Version 5.0 doesn't seem to require an "Authentication Broker," but version 5.5 (included in the 5.0 VCS installation CD) does. 

Is there any risk that the 5.0 VCS console is going to go unsupported?  We'd like to avoid the time and hassle of implementing the broker (bloater?) service required for the 5.5 console.  For the limited number of clusters we support it's absolutely not necessary.

Thanks in advance!