SSO – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

New vRealize Automation (vRA) reference architecture – No more single point of failure

magander — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:43:11 +0000

VMware has recently released an updated version of the vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) which will be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA) in the next (6.2) release so i’ll call it vRA from now on. Two things caught my attention and especially one which i have been looking for a long time now. There is no longer …

Smart card authentication does not work with vCloud Automation Center 6.0

magander — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:49:34 +0000

I’m currently in a vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 project where all the potential end users must use smart card authentication. This is a company policy and we can not change this requirement. Apparently there is a bug in vCAC and the SSO integration which prevent us from being able to use smart card to …

Reset vCenter Single Sign On password

magander — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:47:00 +0000

A customer of mine lost their password for the vCenter Single Sign On (SSO), version 5.1, admin@system-domain account. It is possible to reset the admin@system-domain account if you know the password configured during the installation. However, my customer had not changed the password since the installation meaning there is no supported way of changing the …

vCenter Server and vCenter Single Sign On authentication problem.

magander — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:37:09 +0000

After upgrading a customer environment to the latest available vCenter Server version (5.1.0 U1a) i couldn’t access the vCenter Server. The vSphere Web Client didn’t list any available vCenter Server. The vSphere Client indicates i don’t have the required permissions. The customer uses the following user account, local Windows server group, and active directory group …

vSphere and vCloud Director database creation script

magander — Tue, 21 May 2013 05:16:43 +0000

A customer called me yesterday asking for a script to create the necessary databases to run: vCenter Server vCenter Single Sign On vCenter Update Manager vCloud Director The customer was about to perform a clean install in their test environment and will be using vCenter Server 5.1 U1, ESXi 5.1 U1 and vCloud Director (vCD) …