Issues with installing or after simple install of vSphere Hypervisor

[mrj3ff]

Hello,

I am just trialing vSphere hypervisor and have gone through the vCenter Installer. I have done the simple install. I recently took a class on hypervisor so I thought I would give it a shot with a testlab. So far, not turning out 100% great. After doing the simple install on Windows Server 2012, I go to log onto the vCenter Server appliance (5480) and get "This webpage is not available". It seems that I cannot access anything that has to deal with vcenter server. The only think I know I can access is the vSphere Web Client for managing the hosts, in which it tells me to connect to the vCenter server.....

I have installing all of this onto 1 virtual machine. Any suggestions? Please tell me if you need anymore info.

Thank YOU VMWare community.

[a_p_]

Port 5480 is used for the administration of the vCenter Server Appliance itself, vCenter Server on Windows doesn't use this port. To access the vCenter Server Web Client use https://<vcenter-name-or-ip>:9443 and logon using the default user administrator@vsphere.local. This user has permissions to configure the SSO settings and set permissions for other users or groups on the inventory objects.

André

[mrj3ff]

Andre,

after i have installed everything, i go and log into the vsphere web client. The first thing i see here is "to get started, either install a vcenter server system, or obtain access permission to an existing vcenter server system". This is after i have gone through the complete simple install. Do you have any suggestions? Would this be because vcenter server has not started yet? I read somewhere else about obdc issues. Not sure if that is correct. Currently, i feel as though i am walking in circles....:smileycry:

Jeff

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

Did you try to access the vCenter Server using its URL with port 9443 and the user name I mentioned in my previous reply?

André

[mrj3ff]

When I use port 9443, it takes me to the vSphere Web Client... Unless, their is a way to access the vcenter server from the web client. Should I have specified the port to be different for the vcenter server?

[mrj3ff]

So I am an idiot. Went in circles with this and only because I used the wrong username.......Thank you for telling me twice what I needed to put!