vSphere Hypervisor

Hi,

I am just trying to test the new 4.1 so installed it as a VM and now trying to join the ESXi to the AD, I get the following error : "Error in Active Directory Operations"

Also when I try to join the ESXi using the DC IP its says the domain name contains Invalid Character Quite Puzzling...??

Also I have checked the Date and Time as well as DNS and Routing config.

All seems fine but still doesnt work.

Any help is Welcome.

Thanks

Ran into the same issue this week. Called support and after an hour we got nowhere. So, I kept trying different settings and finally found my way in.

In my case I was using my own account and I was by-passing kerberos authentication, so make sure the account you are using is a Domain admin (has permission to join/create computers in the domain) and is not by-passing pre-authentication.

The other issue was related to the domain name and username. For domain use the FQDN (mydomain.lcl). For user youraccount , don't use mydomain\youraccount format. Even though I've read that you can enter it like this, it did NOT work for me.

This 3 things fixed my issue. Now, all my hosts are on the domain.

Hope this helps...

Thanks very much.

The problem was solved by just changing the way I autheticated. I was using DC\xyz which I just changed to Usr: xyz and it went fine. Also need to be sure that the ID has Domain Admin rights.

Good to Go !!!