Domain Add

I have been thinking of writing this post for a while and here you go…

In vSphere 6.0 U2, you can have an External PSC or an Embedded PSC. The below process is to add an External PSC to the Active Directory Domain.

Login into the vCenter server, go to Administration tab, go to System Configuration –> Nodes and click on the PSC node you want to add to the domain.

psc01_Domain_setting — Click on the node, go to Manage tab, click on Active Directory and click on Join button

psc01_domain_join01 — Provide the Domain name and its credentials (It could be a read-only service account in the domain) to join the PSC to the domain

psc01_domain_join02

once credentials are provided, click OK to proceed.

Note that the only way for you to know that this process is complete is that you get no error and there is no entry in the recent tasks tab in the vSphere web client. If that is the case then the domain add is successful.

Now, you will need to reboot the PSC

psc01_domain_after_psc01_reboot — Once the PSC is rebooted, you can go back into the vCenter server and to the node and you can see that this node (PSC) is now added to the domain.

In a similar way, you can add the remaining PSC’s to the domain and finally, you will need to add the Identity source to the vCenter server itself under single sign-on