vSphere SRM connection credentials

[m80arm]

Hi Guys,

Were currently in the process of implementing SRM 4.0 wihtin vSphere. When I connect to my vcenter and then click to launch SRM from the home screen I get the attached credentials dialogue box. Once I authenticate it goes away but I also have to do this on the recovery site. If I close down the vSphere client and re-connect again I then have to re authenticate again. is there anyway to stop this or configure it so that it passes your vCenter credentials through? I'm an administrator within vCenter and SRM.

Thanks

Michael

[TimOudin]

This is normal behavior, vCenter does not pass through credentials to the remote SRM server. If you haven't already found out, login with 'DOMAIN\username' in that dialog. This will occur on both vCenter servers.

Horribly inelegant behavior, hopefully VMware can address in the near future.

Tim Oudin

[Michelle_Laveri]

This is standard behaviour. I've sometimes wondered about some kind of pass-through to the SRM host. But I wonder if this from a security perspective would be viable. Firstly, its be no account certain that your credentials for vCenter will be same as your credentials for SRM. Indeed there maybe a separation that's required from a security perspective - now we can separate TEST from RUN. You might even end up with one account for executing tests, and another for running them.

WIth that said, with the new shared-site feature it is horribly in convient to be challenged for the 1st time you connect to the Recovery Site. The only saving grace is that at least this is remembered for your vSphere Client session.

I imagine that VMware envisages the shared site model - as being one where the Protected Site is a private company, and the Recovery Site(s) is a DR Solution provider who expect different folks from different companies to login into different recovery sites...

Regards

Mike Laverick

RTFM Education

http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk

Author of the SRM Book:http://stores.lulu.com/rtfm

Free PDF or at-cost Hard Copy

[TimOudin]

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I imagine that VMware envisages the shared site model - as being one where the Protected Site is a private company, and the Recovery Site(s) is a DR Solution provider who expect different folks from different companies to login into different recovery sites...

This is a case I had not considered, good call. Although this probably belong in the feature request forum...it would be extremely convenient if VMware could add a check box similar to that for using Windows credentials to 'Use current session credentials, or similar, and set this as default when checked just as the Windows credentials feature allows.

Tim Oudin

[Michelle_Laveri]

Smiles. Well, how about this for usage case. Lets take the R out of SM... Internal/External clouds anyone?

Regards

Mike Laverick

RTFM Education

http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk

Author of the SRM Book:http://stores.lulu.com/rtfm

Free PDF or at-cost Hard Copy

[m80arm]

Tim / Mike,

Thanks very much for the prompt reply.

Mike - Keep up the excellant work on the website. It's helped me many time

Michael