Can vCenter 4 authenticate and authorize against a virtual directory server??

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Published on 2010-01-26T15:50:37Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 5:03 UTC
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Hi

I am looking into Identity managment in our environment. We currently use Active Directory and Sun's Enterprise Directory server (6.3). I was wondering if I used the Virtual Directory Server of the Enterprise Directory server, would we be able to point the vCenter clients to this Directory service for authentication and authorization rather than at the AD source. The reason for this is that we have more users we want to add to the management role of this server but not all are in AD, a fair number are in the Sun LDAP v3. directory.

Thanks in advance

Ian

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