You can now login to the vSphere 6.0 vCenter with your Active Directory Account.Aaaaugh, make it stop! Another one bites the dust! Select the Active Directory domain under Domain, choose a user and press Add.To add a AD user as global Administrator navigate to Administration > Access Control > Global Permissions
To login with AD users, you have to set permissions. Select you Active Directory and click the world with arrow button to make AD to your default domain. Back at Identity Sources your AD should appear in the list and from now on you are able to assign vCenter permissions to users and groups from your active directory. Press Test Connection to verify AD connection Username: A user in the AD Domain with at least browse privileges. You can either query the local directory (Port 389), or the global catalog (Port 3268). Example: "virten"īase DN for groups: The Distinguished Name (DN) of the starting point for directory server searches. Example: "virten.lab"ĭomain alias: Your netbios name. Example: If your domain name is virten.lab the DN for the entire directory is "DC=virten,DC=lab".ĭomain name: Your domain name. If the underlying system is not part of the Active Directory domain.Fill out the remaining fields as follows:īase DN for users: The Distinguished Name (DN) of the starting point for directory server searches. The underlying system (Windows Server or Infrastructure node of Platform Services Controller) has to be a member of the Active Directory domain. This option works with both, Windows-based vCenter Server and vCenter Server Appliance. Click the green + to add an identity sourceĪ) Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication). Navigate to Administration > Single Sign-On > Configuration. Login as Single Sign-On Administrator (Password set during installation). This works for both, the vCenter Server 6.0 installed on Windows Server and the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). 
The method shown in this post allows you to manage users and groups in your central directory. This post describes how to configure AD authentication in vCenter Server 6.0.
The PSC contains all the services that vCenter needs for its functions including Single Sign-On (SSO). Platform Service Controller is a new component in vSphere 6.0.
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