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Table Of Contents
- Platform Services Controller Administration
- Contents
- About Platform Services Controller Administration
- 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
- Understanding 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 vSphere Client
- 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
About
Platform Services Controller
Administration
The Platform Services Controller Administration documentation explains how the VMware
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Platform Services Controllerâ„¢ fits into your vSphere environment and helps you perform common tasks
such as certificate management and vCenter Single Sign-On configuration.
Platform Services Controller Administration explains how you can set up authentication with vCenter
Single Sign-On and how to manage certificates for vCenter Server and related services.
Table 1.
Platform Services Controller Administration
Highlights
Topics Content Highlights
Getting Started with Platform Services Controller
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vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller
deployment models. NOTE: This information changes with
each release of the product.
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Platform Services Controller services on Linux and
Windows.
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Managing Platform Services Controller services.
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Managing the Platform Services Controller appliance using
VAMI.
vSphere Authentication with vCenter Single Sign-On
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Architecture of the authentication process.
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How to add identity sources so users in your domain can
authenticate.
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Two-factor authentication.
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Managing users, groups, and policies.
vSphere Security Certificates
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Certificate model, and options for replacing certificates.
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Replace certificates from the UI (simple cases).
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Replace certificates using the Certificate Manager utility.
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Replace certificates using the CLI (complex situations).
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Certificate management CLI reference.
Related Documentation
A companion document, vSphere Security, describes available security features and the measures that
you can take to safeguard your environment from attack. That document also explains how you can set
up permissions, and includes a reference to privileges.
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