Today I continued my evaluation of vSphere, and vCenter Orchestrator was on the plate for this morning, so here's my story!
Like most, im not one for reading the instructions so I just "wung it"!
I started off by opening the VMware vCenter Orchestrator Confiuration, and after trying all of the username/password combinations that I could think of I found it!
username: vmware
password: vmware
(I'm sure that's explained in the instructions somewhere right?)
On the network configuration section, everything was self explanitory, even on the SSL Certificate section (within the Network section).
I found myself struggling with the LDAP section, come to find out the AD domain admins did not have everything where I thought they did, so I had to do some digging though AD to find the correct tree paths.
Examples: vCO Admin Group: CN=vmwareadmins, OU=groups, DC=corp, DC=foo, DC=com
Under Server Certificate, I imported the local machine certificate by using https://localhost as a link
For Licenses, I used my vCenter license which worked just fine.
Under Startup Options I had to go to the vCenter section first and configure it, I selected the session per user tab after digging through the manual to figure out why my configuration would not work!
from there I had to restart the vCO configuration server and away I went!
I popped open the vCenter Orchestrator Client, entered localhost, my username and password.... "Cannot connect to host."
Nothing in the event log, nothing anywhere else... hmmmmm
So, I removed "localhost" and entered the hostname of the server, username/password and POOF! it worked!
time to go play!
