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Vcenter login and single sign on dependence

I have installed Vsphere Vcenter 5.5 and when I tried to login using my domain credentials, it did not work. I had to install Vmware Single sign on software. Apparently Vspher 5.5 login depends on SSO.
Well, when I installed SSO, by default it uses the Vsphere.local , and my windows domain is Test.local, when I tried to change Vsphere.local to Test.local in SSO , it did not take it.
so in SSO I had to use Vsphere.local.

In Vcenter also, I will have to use Vspher.local in domain field and login with the same credentials I used in SSO.
So I am a little bit confused why I cannot use windows domain credentials to login to Vcenter. Apparently even when I login with SSO credentials, I still cannot see any issue with it, but I am afraid I will encounter some issues later.

Any idea on this ?

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Paul Solovyovsky

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

For your information SSO is a new requirement, and later more and more VMware vSphere products will rely on SSO, to provide Single-Sign On!

So it may see over the top now, just for vCenter Server, but that's why VMware require it to be installed.

jskfan

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I have first installed Vcenter, but when I tried to login it did not take my domain credentials it asked for SSO.
I installed SSO and inventory service, in SSO install Wizard, it prompted me to enter password for user: administrator@vsphere.local, I tried to change it to administrator@mydomainname.local then entered my domain password but it did not take it.
So now when I login to VSphere client I have to enter the Vcenter server name, user name and the domain Vsphere.local… How to change Vsphere.local on SSO so that it will take my real domain name : mydomainname.local ????

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jskfan

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Thanks.............I will check it later