Hello!
Currently in my environment we have a brand new VS3 but isolated from our domain in our datacenter. Does anyone know of any problems with adding a vCenter 5.1 server to a domain after vCenter has already been configured? The server hosting vCenter also has the DNS role installed for the ESXi hosts and is configured with dual nics; one to communicate with the isolated VS3 network/ESXi hosts and the second configured to communicate with all servers within the primary server VLAN (where the domain controllers reside).
The purpose of adding vCenter to the domain is to eliminate from having to create local user accounts on the hosted vCenter server for specified user access.
Please let me know if I'm lacking any further details or if I can be more specific. I'm sure we aren't the only VS3 or similar shop where a all-in-one virtual infrastructure was built and dropped into a datacenter ready to run.
Thanks,
Steve