6.5.1
Table Of Contents
- Platform Services Controller Administration
- Contents
- About Platform Services Controller Administration
- Updated Information
- Getting Started with Platform Services Controller
- vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller Deployment Types
- Deployment Topologies with External Platform Services Controller Instances and High Availability
- Understanding vSphere Domains, Domain Names, and Sites
- Platform Services Controller Capabilities
- Managing Platform Services Controller Services
- Managing the Platform Services Controller Appliance
- vSphere Authentication with vCenter Single Sign-On
- Understanding vCenter Single Sign-On
- Configuring vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Sources
- Identity Sources for vCenter Server with vCenter Single Sign-On
- Set the Default Domain for vCenter Single Sign-On
- Add a vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Source
- Edit a vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Source
- Remove a vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Source
- Use vCenter Single Sign-On With Windows Session Authentication
- vCenter Server Two-Factor Authentication
- Using vCenter Single Sign-On as the Identity Provider for Another Service Provider
- Security Token Service STS
- Managing vCenter Single Sign-On Policies
- Managing vCenter Single Sign-On Users and Groups
- Add vCenter Single Sign-On Users
- Disable and Enable vCenter Single Sign-On Users
- Delete a vCenter Single Sign-On User
- Edit a vCenter Single Sign-On User
- Add a vCenter Single Sign-On Group
- Add Members to a vCenter Single Sign-On Group
- Remove Members From a vCenter Single Sign-On Group
- Delete vCenter Single Sign-On Solution Users
- Change Your vCenter Single Sign-On Password
- vCenter Single Sign-On Security Best Practices
- vSphere Security Certificates
- Certificate Requirements for Different Solution Paths
- Certificate Management Overview
- Managing Certificates with the Platform Services Controller Web Interface
- Explore Certificate Stores from the Platform Services Controller Web Interface
- Replace Certificates with New VMCA-Signed Certificates from the Platform Services Controller Web Interface
- Make VMCA an Intermediate Certificate Authority from the Platform Services Controller Web Interface
- Set up Your System to Use Custom Certificates from the Platform Services Controller
- Managing Certificates from the vSphere Web Client
- Managing Certificates with the vSphere Certificate Manager Utility
- Certificate Manager Options and the Workflows in This Document
- Regenerate a New VMCA Root Certificate and Replace All Certificates
- Make VMCA an Intermediate Certificate Authority (Certificate Manager)
- Generate CSR with vSphere Certificate Manager and Prepare Root Certificate (Intermediate CA)
- Replace VMCA Root Certificate with Custom Signing Certificate and Replace All Certificates
- Replace Machine SSL Certificate with VMCA Certificate (Intermediate CA)
- Replace Solution User Certificates with VMCA Certificates (Intermediate CA)
- Replace All Certificates with Custom Certificate (Certificate Manager)
- Revert Last Performed Operation by Republishing Old Certificates
- Reset All Certificates
- Manual Certificate Replacement
- Managing Services and Certificates With CLI Commands
- Troubleshooting Platform Services Controller
- Determining the Cause of a Lookup Service Error
- Unable to Log In Using Active Directory Domain Authentication
- vCenter Server Login Fails Because the User Account Is Locked
- VMware Directory Service Replication Can Take a Long Time
- Export a Platform Services Controller Support Bundle
- Platform Services Controller Service Logs Reference
5.5, this user was administrator@vsphere.local. With vSphere 6.0, you can
change the vSphere domain when you install vCenter Server or deploy the
vCenter Server Appliance with a new Platform Services Controller. Do not
name the domain name with your Microsoft Active Directory or OpenLDAP
domain name.
VMware Directory
Service (vmdir)
The VMware Directory service (vmdir) is associated with the domain you
specify during installation and is included in each embedded deployment
and on each Platform Services Controller. This service is a multi-tenanted,
multi-mastered directory service that makes an LDAP directory available on
port 389. The service still uses port 11711 for backward compatibility with
vSphere 5.5 and earlier systems.
If your environment includes more than one instance of the
Platform Services Controller, an update of vmdir content in one vmdir
instance is propagated to all other instances of vmdir.
Starting with vSphere 6.0, the VMware Directory Service stores not only
vCenter Single Sign-On information but also certificate information.
Identity Management
Service
Handles identity sources and STS authentication requests.
How vCenter Single Sign-On Aects Installation
Starting with version 5.1, vSphere includes a vCenter Single Sign-On service as part of the
vCenter Server management infrastructure. This change affects vCenter Server installation.
Authentication with vCenter Single Sign-On makes vSphere more secure because the vSphere software
components communicate with each other by using a secure token exchange mechanism, and all other
users also authenticate with vCenter Single Sign-On.
Starting with vSphere 6.0, vCenter Single Sign-On is either included in an embedded deployment, or part
of the Platform Services Controller. The Platform Services Controller contains all of the services that are
necessary for the communication between vSphere components including vCenter Single Sign-On,
VMware Certificate Authority, VMware Lookup Service, and the licensing service.
The order of installation is important.
First installation If your installation is distributed, you must install the
Platform Services Controller before you install vCenter Server or deploy the
vCenter Server Appliance. For an embedded deployment the correct
installation order happens automatically.
Subsequent
installations
For approximately up to four vCenter Server instances, one
Platform Services Controller can serve your entire vSphere environment.
You can connect the new vCenter Server instances to the same
Platform Services Controller. For more than approximately four
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