I am trying to setup Vmware Vcenter Virtual appliance 5.5 in my lab environment with my 5.1 ESXI server.
So far I have managed to deploy the OVA file and set it up to what I feel is the correct setup and is inline with tutorials I have read on this forum.
The issue is to do with pulling user information from AD.
The virtual appliance binds in to the domain fine and the computer account is present within AD.
I then login to the vsphere web clients to edit the SSO settings with administrator@vsphere.local. Again this works fine.
I go to administration > SSO > and click on the '+ & chose Active directory (Integrated windows authentication).
This seems to work fine.
When I then go to Users and groups to try and add a local AD account to the administrators group it just says 'The list is empty.' & I get the error popup 'Cannot load the users for the selected domain.'.
If I logout and try to login with a AD account it works but with an error about the user not having permissions to view the inventory.
If I set it up the LDAP way - The users appear in the list so I can add them to the administrators group. But when I logout and try to login I get the message:
The authentication server returned an unexpected error: ns0:RequestFailed: Group was not found. GroupSID= 'S-1-5-21-1216658527-3710616582-2961077928-513'.. The error may be caused by a malfunctioning identity source.
Not sure what else I can try now?
Rob