dbutch1976 wrote:
I am using the local system account to run all of the services, however they won't start. My belief is that since this is vCenter 5.1 there services won't start unless SSO is able to connect to Active Directory.
Using the vCenter appliance is not applicable because the purpose of this lab is to test patching to our production vCenter 5.1 server.
Are you certain that SSO isn't causing the problem and that the problem is ultimately that AD is not available in the lab?
Hi dbutch1976 ,
Since you just cloned your vCenter Server, you will need to clean up the AD pieces that are still in your config:
- Remove the cloned from the Domain and put it in a workgroup.
- Check the users that are configured to start the vCenter services in Windows ( we use an AD-User *hint hint*)
- And check how your vCenter is talking to it's DB (FQDN? DNS available at lab? AD-User credentials?
- etc.
that might help.
Regards