vCenter offers several ways to authenticate users including local OS authentication, SSO provided by PSC and Active Directory authentication. Today we will configure AD authentication and assign global permission to a user group from AD. For the initial configuration vCenter windows, instance and the appliance version has a slight difference. I will only illustrate the steps required to configure VCSA as the windows edition is set to phase out after the current (v.6.7) version. First, log into the vCenter Client (HTML5) and navigate to administration from the menu. Then, select configuration under Single Sign On, and select Active Directory Domain from the tabs. Then, click on Join AD. Provide the…
