Good morning,
I'm currently working through the steps required to build a new 5.5 vCenter server with the aim of eventually migrating our existing 5.0 ESXi hosts to it before upgrading them to ESXi 5.5. I'm looking to enable the vSphere Web Client to allow users to sign in without having to enter the domain name but isn't working currently. If specifying the domain name with the username it will log users in ok. The company I work for is part of a larger group and our domain is part of their forest. When running through the setup I entered our own AD details but under Identity sources that isn't there, only the name of our parent companies domain. If I go to enter a new identity source using our domain name I receive the message 'The "Add identity source" operation failed for the entity with the following error message. There is already one IdentitySource of AD type registered: name '{domain name}'. Only one IDS of AD type is allowed' even though the domain names are different.
If I go to Users and Groups under Single Sign-On and click on the Domain: drop down box I can see that our domain is listed (in amongst other business units domain names contained within the parent companies forest) and I can add users and groups from our domain all OK. When reading the documentation on identity sources for single sign-on from the link below, I've set the automatically populated parent companies domain as the default but still the same issue persists (unable to login without specifying the domain name).
The article above suggests that if the automatically discovered parent companies domain wasn't entered then I wouldn't be able to login with our own domain accounts at all, but as we can then why wouldn't the logic for dropping the domain name from the login work when setting that domain as the default domain?
Has anyone come across this issue and how have you resolved this?
Many thanks