Hi all,
I'm installing VCSA in workstation, in stage 2 I'm having issues with the process failing due to LDAP Error.
Stage 1 I have the hostname set to vcenter.local, and it resolves both forward and reverse.
For the SSO I set the domain to vsphere.local, also tried vcenter.local, it failed with the same error.
Does SSO require a value LDAP server running on AD? I don't have a windows server, does this mean I can't install VCSA?
Thanks
Word of advice for the future: Limit all special characters to only a "!" because inevitably any other special character will produce a failure somewhere.
You're getting this error because "vsphere.local" is a reserved name used only for the internal SSO process (which you should leave at the default during installation). You cannot name vCSA or any of the hosts it manages with the vsphere.local domain. So change your domain, ensure you have forward and reverse DNS resolution, and try again.
Thanks for the reply, on the console I access the web portal using https://vcenter.local:5480, and I have forward and reverse DNS setup for this.
vcenter.local = 192.168.100.26
On the SSO setup, what domain should I be using? Do I not populate the domain name, or choose something different, eg sso-vcenter.local?
If I do use sso-vcenter.local, do I point that to the same IP as the host? 192.168.100.26, or create a new IP?
Thanks again!
When you deploy vCSA, use the default SSO domain of just "vsphere.local" like it already has there. Don't change that. For the hostname of your vCenter, that needs to be on a totally separate domain. Something like "myname.local" or "foo.bar". Whatever it is, just don't make it vsphere.local. You need A and PTR records for this hostname.
I've completed stage 1 and hostname of the vcenter is as below.
Dig Results
In stage 2, I'm actually typing in "vsphere.local" in the SSO Domain field, if I don't enter any text there is greyed out text "vsphere.local"
Should I NOT put any text in this field, and only populate a password?
Thanks
Put vsphere.local in for good measure.
And point that to the same IP 192.168.100.26 ?
I'm confused. Where are you talking about? The SSO domain name only is "vsphere.local". Anything else should be on your own internal domain.
Failed with the same issue, I've downloaded the logs, however there's quite a few in the tar ball. Happy to post the contents, which log file should I be looking at?
I managed to FINALLY get this installed and working, the issue appears to be the password I'd used for SSO, it contained a $, replaced it with an @ and bingo!
Appreciate the help.
Thanks
Word of advice for the future: Limit all special characters to only a "!" because inevitably any other special character will produce a failure somewhere.
I actually had to redeploy, I was having issues with SSO, created a different password only using ! as the special character and it working great now.
Thanks