Chapter 4. Configuring User Management
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Configuring vCenter Single Sign-On
- Managing Single Sign-On users with vSphere Web Client
- Configuring Active Directory integration
- Managing Active Directory users and groups
- Assigning permissions
- Assigning administrative roles
Introduction
With all Enterprise infrastructure products, administrative permissions are paramount to the security of the system, applications, data, and users. Similar to many application systems, VMware offers the ability to manage user and group permissions provided by an external source such as Active Directory or Open LDAP.
In a properly designed system, there should be only rare occasions when the role of a full administrator is required ...
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