vCAC 6 series – Part 3 – Deploy VMware Identity Appliance

What is VMware Identity Appliance- A pre-configured virtual appliance that provides Single Sign-On capabilities for vCloud Automation Center solution. However, if you have vSphere 5.5b deployed already, you can use vCenter SSO as and identity instance for vCAC deployment.

Deployment:

• Using vSphere client go to File –> Deploy OVF template

deploy OVF template VMware identity Appliance

deploy VM from OVF – properties page

Configuration

• Power virtual machine on
• Browse to https://<appliance FQDN>:5480 and log in using root credentials
• Set up time settings, I use my internal NTP server

Time source configuration

• On the SSO tab enter password for administrator in system domain vsphere.local

SSO configuration

[box type=”warning”] NOTE: write down password – you will need it in further process of vCloud Automation Center deployment. It can take several minutes for the success message to appear. Do not interrupt the process.[/box]

• On host settings tab type FQDN of identity appliance and append SSO port 7444 to host name, in my case it is via01.lab.local:7444

SSO port 7444

• generate self-signed SSL certificate or import signed one

generate self-signed SSL certificate

• On AD tab, you can join appliance to Active Directory domain

Join appliance to AD

DONE.

vCloud Automation Center 6.0 series

• vCAC 6 series – Part 1 – Architecture
• vCAC 6 series – Part 2 – Prepare for deployment
• vCAC 6 series – Part 3 – Deploy VMware Identity Appliance
• vCAC 6 series – Part 4 – Deploy VMware vCAC Appliance
• vCAC 6 series – Part 5 – Installing IaaS components
• vCAC 6 series – Part 6 – Initial Configuration
• vCAC 6 series – Part 7 – Post Installation Tasks
• vCAC 6 series – Part 8 – Installing vSphere Agent
• vCAC 6 series – Part 9 – Configuring IaaS for vSphere
• vCAC 6 series – Part 10 – Prepare for provisioning
• vCAC 6 series – Part 11 – Create Blueprint