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Hi all, so a little confusion here.

I have an existing SSO PSC.

I want to Join a demo of VCSA67 to it.

when I choose:

PSC: vcenterserver.inmydomain.com

HTTPS;443

SSO domain name: vmware.local

SSO user: administrator (this should be “Administrator” but vmware pre-populated the field with LowerCase) Unable to change this.

SSO pw: xyzpassword

This fails because it complains about the password not being complex enough??

I am joining an EXISTING PSC…the password is already SET IN STONE. I know this works because i can Iog into it with the credentials provided.

So at this point, I am stonewalled.

Seems the ONLY way to get this running is by creating yet another stupid .local domain.

Pointers??

4 Spice ups
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Is your PSC upgraded to 6.7 and is your password still valid. The PSC password is set to expire within 1 year by default.

reset expiration of root password

invalid characters in password

Jason

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Ohhh…so I would have to upgrade my PSC to 6.7 before joining??

If so, that would be the issue.

Well, I will not be doing that, so I will go ahead and install with *.local.

Thanks

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Windows install or appliance, the latter should be used and the installer can do a complete migration for you

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I am trying the appliance. Older 6.0 vcenter is on windows. Thought the appliance might be something to look at.

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The appliance has all the PSC built in, and will do a complete migration from your old to the new, however it’s not something you should demo in a live environment.

I would try it outside of this, either by way of a clean install, or simply plan in the migration

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I just want to Demo this a see how it behaves.

Is HTML5 ready for prime time?? Previous try’s I found it was not.

I will do a Fresh, Clean install if I decide to commit.

No Migration…

Tks

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The PSC should always be the most up to date object in the heirarchy, followed by vCenter/update manager, then Hosts, then vmtools, then vm hardware.

If you have the opportunity to move your hosts to the 6.7 appliance, you should consider doing embedded psc/vcenter. It is now supported for enhanced linked mode environments, but only in new deployments.

Jason

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Is it ready depend son what features you use, it’s been available since 6.0U2 I believe, certainly in U3 and 6.5 - the flash version is still there too

I dont believe you can demo this with your live system - possibly with linked VCs but this then gets a little more in-depth, and may complicate things.

I would either create a lab and play with it there or see if any of the VMware labs have this to play with