The Active Directory will be added to the Identity Sources list.Select Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication).Go to Home / Administration / Configuration / Identity Sources and click “plus” button.

Use the SSO credentials during the installation. After the setup is completed, click Finish.Ĭonnect to the vCenter Server through vSphere Web Client.Decide whether to join or not customer experience.Leave Destination Directory as default and click Next.Select User an external database, select the vCenter database from the drop-list.Select Specify a user service account, type vCenter user (domain format) and password.Enter vCenter SSO domain name and password.Ignore the warning message and click OK.Enter the vCenter domain name and click Next.Select Embedded Deployment and click Next.From the installation wizard select vCenter Server for Windows and click Install.After all previous steps, now is time to install vCenter.Test the Data Source… Make sure that the “Tests Completed Successfully”.Select the Database created for vCenter from the drop-list.Select Windows Authentications and click Next.

Name the Data Source and select the SQL server previously created from the drop-list.

Select SQL Server Native Client 11.0 and click Finish.

Go to System and Security / Administrative Tools, double-click ODBC Data Sources (64-bits).

After the installation is completed, click Finish.

Double-click to start the installation wizard.

Got to Microsoft web page and download Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client.

NET Framework 3.5 and 4.6 features are installed in the server.

Log out of the computer and sing in back using the vCenter user.

Type Domain controller server credentials and the vCenter user will be added to the log-on as a service policy.

Type vCenter user, click Check Names and Click OK.

From Local Security Policy, go to Local Policies / User Rights Assignment, double-click on Log on as a service.

Go to Windows / Windows Administrative tools.

The vCenter user will be added to the Administrators group.ģ.2 Add vCenter user to “ Log on as a service” policy.

Type vCenter user (previously created), click Check Names and Click OK.

Go to Local Users and Groups / Groups, right-click on Administrators and click Properties.

Before vCenter installation 3.1 Add vCenter user to admins group Move it to the Computers OU created during the domain controller set up. If you go to your domain controller, the server should be added in the default Computers folder.

Change computer name and add the server to the domain.

Deploy the VM from the template previously created.

SQL Server 2012 Native Client image (It will be downloaded in section 3).

Windows Server 2016 template, previously created in part 4 of this series.

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