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Learning VMware vRealize Automation

You're reading from   Learning VMware vRealize Automation Learn the fundamentals of vRealize Automation to accelerate the delivery of your IT services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885839
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sriram Rajendran Sriram Rajendran
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Preface 1. vRealize Automation and the Deconstruction of Components FREE CHAPTER 2. Distributed Installation Using Custom Certificates 3. Functional Validation – Phase 1 and Installing Secondary Nodes 4. Configuring a Guest OS for vRealize Automation vSphere Blueprints 5. Functional Validation – Phase 2 and Zero to VM Provisioning 6. Testing Failover Scenarios for vRealize Automation Components 7. vRealize Orchestrator in High Availability via the NSX Load Balancer 8. The Power of Advanced Service Designer (ASD) Index

Identity management appliance or SSO or PSC

The identity management appliance or vSphere 5.5 SSO or vSphere 6.0 PSC provides Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities that allow connectivity to Active Directory (AD) or Open LDAP-compatible directory services.

Identity management appliance

This is a preconfigured virtual appliance that serves as the heart of the SSO system with limited capabilities released specifically for the vRealize Automation product. It serves all authentication requests and handles multiple identity sources and uses a routing layer to route requests to an appropriate subsystem (a configuration or authentication interface). It is important to note that an IDM appliance is recommended for small-scale deployments. If your design demands high availability, you could use a vSphere feature such as HA and FT since the IDM appliance does not have native capability to cluster or join with the existing SSO deployments.

vSphere 5.5 SSO

vSphere 5.5 SSO is available as a Windows-based as well as a Linux-based appliance and can be added to an existing SSO domain. If your design demands an SSO configuration to be highly available behind a load balancer, you are limited to using only a Windows version of SSO, but be aware that it supports active/passive failover mode.

vSphere 6.0 PSC

Since the release of vSphere 6, the SSO configuration has been built into Platform Service Controller (PSC) that is available in both Linux and Windows-based flavor. If your design demands an SSO configuration to be highly available behind a load balancer, you have the flexibility to choose between both Linux and Windows:

vSphere 6.0 PSC
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