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…
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How to update vCenter Server
Applying minor updates to vCenter and Platform Service Controller appliances is little bit different than upgrading to Major versions. You are able to apply the updates using the online repository or using your own repository or using the patch ISO. Today we will look at how to apply minor updates to vCenter and PSA using on-premise repo or patch CD. Update vCenter/PSC using on-premise repository First you need to download the repository bundle from my.vmware.com. Upgrade repository is located in the same place where you find the vCenter installation media, under the name “VMware vCenter Server Appliance Update Bundle” Then extract the update bundle into a web server you prefer.…
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Upgrade vSphere Environment Part 1 – Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance to v6.7
Currently, we have deployed a vSphere environment with one vCenter Server appliance v6.5 with external PSC and 3 ESXi 6.5 hosts. VMware has released the latest upgrade for vSphere platform on April 2018. So let’s upgrade our environment to the version 6.7 as well. In this post we will discuss about the method of upgrading vCenter server and we will upgrade ESXi hosts later in a separate post. You should always upgrade vCenter server before upgrading ESXi hosts as vCenter cannot manage hosts which are higher in version. Major version upgrades to vCenter appliance can be consider as a migration as well. Since we have to deploy new VCSA and…
