Tag Archive: vCenter Single SIgn On

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

October 28, 2014

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 …

vCenter Server and vCenter Single Sign On authentication problem.

June 24, 2013

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

May 21, 2013

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) …