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Enabling Active Directory in vCenter 5.1 Virtual appliance

vSphere 5.1 vCenter Virtual Appliance AD Integration

When i tried to enable Active directory in  vCVA 5.1 it failed at various stages
Firstly i was not able to enable Active directory in vCVA as it gave an error shown here:



Once i was able to fix this error and enable it successfully , i still couldnt see the domain while adding permissions in vSphere Web Client or vSphere Client




Here is the Sequence of steps i followed to make it work in our test:

1.Created a Host and PTR record for the vcenter Appliance in our Domain DNS

2.Made sure the Time zone on vCVA is set correctly
3.Make sure the Hostname of the vCVA is the one we created in the step 1 (Under network Tab)
4.Mention the IP address for DNS servers correctly
4.The username to enable Active directory should have permissions on AD and we need to specify it as user@domain.com format
5.All Services showuld be Stared and Running
6.Rebooted vCVA and the ESXi host on which it was deployed


I dont know if these make sense or should be followed in order , but it somehow worked for me.

Some images are shown here:




Some other Links:


http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=201196


Hope this Helps

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