Administrator account for vCenter

[tractng]

During the vCenter installation, what is the preferred entry for the administrator account for SSO?  Do still keep "vSphere" - for example "administrator@vSphere.mydomain.net"  I ran through the setup on test environment really late last night and notice this morning my account was "administrator@mydomain.net".  Trying to avoid any headache in the future with SSO.

vCenter is 6.5.

TT

[daphnissov]

When setting up a vCenter, do not change the local SSO domain from the default of "vsphere.local" unless you know exactly what and why you're doing it. The default account would therefore be administrator@vsphere.local.

[itproguide]

The domain name is used by the VMware Directory Service (vmdir) for all Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) internal structuring.

With vSphere 6.0 and later, you can give your vSphere domain a unique name. To prevent authentication conflicts, use a name that is not used by OpenLDAP, Microsoft Active Directory, and other directory services

[tractng]

Yea.  I have always seen "Administrator@vSphere.local" as the default on version 5.5.  I need to have it like "Administrator@vSphere.mydomain.net" by specifying a unique name for the domain during setup.

Thanks.

[daphnissov]

It's the default even today unless you changed the SSO domain which, again, just don't.

[tractng]

daphnissov,

So how would I keep it exactly like "administrator@vSphere.local" ?  From what I remember running the setup last night, the account defaults to the domain that was a requirement for one of the fields.

[HassanAlKak88]

Hello,

I recommend to check the below:

https://haveyoutriedreinstalling.com/2016/04/26/caution-custom-vsphere-local-domains/

https://astgl.com/2017/09/28/changing-vcenter-default-domain/

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[GayathriS]

Hi

.Each Platform Services Controller is associated with a vCenter Single Sign-On domain

2. The domain name is used by the VMware Directory Service (vmdir) for all Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) internal structuring

2. Default domain name - vsphere.local for all vSphere versions

    Condition I -

               a. Your vSphere domain name is (vsphere.local) till vSphere 5.5 and you don't have option to change it.
               b. If you are upgrading from vSphere 5.5 to 6.x then your vSphere domain name would remains same (vsphere.local) and you don't have option to change it.

    Condition II -
               a. When you install a Platform Services Controller, you are prompted to create a vCenter Single Sign-On domain or join an existing domain

               b. With vSphere 6.0 and later, you can give your vSphere domain a unique name ( you can change domain name now in fresh/new installation)

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[Devi94]

Keep it as administrator@vsphere.local. That makes your setup easy.