Configuring vCenter Single Sign-On

Single sign-on has undergone significant changes from Version 5.1. Architectural and operational changes can be reviewed in vSphere publications available at http://www.vmware.com.

Getting ready

In order to proceed, we require access to vSphere Web Client. The client can be run on any modern Windows desktop operating system or server operating system.

Note

vSphere Web Client requires Adobe Flash, which is not supported on Linux operating systems at this time.

We must be logged into vSphere Web Client with a user account in the administrators group. By default, [e-mail] is the administrator account for SSO.

How to do it…

In this section, we'll configure Single Sign-On policies:

1. Log in to vSphere Web Client (in our example, at https://vcenter55.training.lab:9443/vsphere-client/).
2. Navigate to the Administration view.
3. Expand Single Sign-On in the left-hand side pane.
4. Click on the Configuration tab in the left-hand side pane.
5. In the main...