SSO and Entirely Virtual Envorinment

[VM_MEG]

Here is a scenario we are tossing around. I'd like to go entirely virtual in the next year. If I were to virtualize my vCenter 5.1 and all of my DCs onto a 3 host cluster. What is the startup procedure in the event I have to power all hosts down? Is logging on locally to one of the hosts still an option on 5.1?

[vmfcraig · Accepted solution]

Yep you can still login to the hosts locally using the vSphere Client as long as you have the root password.

Your startup priority would be:

High - DC

Medium - vCenter

Low - Everything else

[VM_MEG]

Just as a bit of a wrench in the works. What if lockdown mode was enabled? At that point am I limited to console only access to get started back up?