Hi experts,
i installed a vCenter 5.5 after the DB administrator had created the vCenter DB (SQL) on a separated VM.
For the installation, he activated the SA account for this DB.
Before the installation, i configured a SQL Server ODBC Connection (SQL Server Native Client 11.0), specified the SA account and the authentication method "With SQL Server authentication using a login ID an password entered by the user".
During the installation, it seems that the above information had been collected and used to create the registry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware VirtualCenter\DB".
After the installation period, the DBA remove the access right to SA.
We defined a new user and the VMware vCenter Server service start with an AD account.
Everything works fine but the DBA see the following message every 30 minutes:
"Login failed for user 'SA'. Reason: An attempt to login using SQL authentication failed. Server is configured for Windows authentication only."
"Login failed for user 'svcvirtualcenter'. Reason: An attempt to login using SQL authentication failed. Server is configured for Windows authentication only."
If i change the value in the ligne "2", from SA to svcvirtualcenter, the username changes in the above message.
"Login failed for user 'svcvirtualcenter'. Reason: An attempt to login using SQL authentication failed. Server is configured for Windows authentication only."
Questions:
- May i used an AD account for the vCenter user to connect to its SQL database?
- Which task used the user defined in the above registry?
- In the registry, there is a value noticed something like "SQL authentication". How to change it to Windows authentication?
In advance thank you for your help.
Best regards.
