I have installed and configured the Vcenter 5.1 and presently am using local administrator account to login vcenter server. But now i want to integrate my existing AD account to this vcenter login for giving role based access to AD users. Can anyone help me on this to resolve this?
Raghuram
You will have to add your AD as identity source in SSO.
Here is how you can add:
Refer: VMware vSphere 5.1
Let me know if you need any help.
Thanks for your immediate response Vicky. One more doubt on this, whether i can access local administrator user after adding to Windows AD because its a production environment. Can you clarify on this too?
Raghuram S
Yes, You will be able to login with local admin user as well even though you have added AD as identity source. Even you can add multiple ADs as identity sources (child domains etc.).
Hi Vicky,
Thanks for your support, i have completed and checked with windows AD user, its working fine but am not able to login as Administrator using vsphere client or vsphere web client. can you please help me out on this?
Thanks & Regards,
Raghuram Sethuraman
Two things to check:
1) Are your identity sources added properly?
2) In VC, are the appropriate permissions given to the Administrator?
Regards
Girish
Hi Girish,
Thanks for your reply. Please find the comments on your queries.
1) Are your identity sources added properly? --> Yes, i have added test user and tried login with Windows AD account it got succeeded.
2) In VC, are the appropriate permissions given to the Administrator? --> I didn't changed any permission for administrator because already its logged and was in working condition only.
Hope you are not using domain\administrator to login?
Thanks for your reply praveenmna!!!
Yes, i am not using domain administrator login. I want to access with Vcenter server installed local administrator login and Windows AD users login. Need to access both simultaneously.
could you please share the screenshot of the error?
From the error, it looks like credentials issue.
Have you tried by resetting admin password??
Also try to create a local account on center and add to vcenter and try log in.
