Earlier this week, a customer reached out about the installation requirements for Data Services Manager 2.0.x. One of the steps in the installation documentation states the requirement for a vCenter SSO Username. The doc added that this has to be the vCenter server administrator’s SSO username. And even though these SSO admin credentials are not stored, and are in fact discarded after creating a dedicated vCenter service account for VMware Data Services Manager, the customer asked if there was a way to create a “least privileged” user for creating a DSM service account. The answer is yes. This post will…
A number of customers have experienced some issues with getting the Virtual SAN (VSAN) health check to work correctly in their environments. The most common issues have been permissions and certificates. In this post, I want to highlight these issues and any associated KB articles, and call out the symptom as well as the resolution.