Logon to VM's with AD account ?

[twen1234]

We have ESX 3.5 with a number of workstation vm's which we want to provide access via the Web console. However in 3.5, it seems that permissions for VM's cannot be set using the ESX server itself but rather by the Virtualcenter product.

When we set this via the Virtualcenter product we can select AD groups/user permissions which is fine. However when we try and logon via the Webconsole with a domain account this is not allowed.

Can anyone confirm if above is correct and how we either

1. Set the permissions to use ESX specific accounts (rather than domain ones)

and/or

2. Whether the Web console can be configured to accept Domain accounts

Many thanks

Toby

[weinstein5 · Accepted solution]

Ot sounds like you are accessing the 'web console' through your esx server - which ustilizes users/groups created in the service console - you then could set permissions via the VI Client pointed directly at the ESX host but the better way to do this is access 'Web Console' also called wbe access through your VC Server which also provides Web Access - and you would be able to use the VC credentials -

[twen1234]

Thanks. I tried to connet to my VC webconsole logged in but got the message "Web service unavailable" even though the service running okay... Any ideas ?