You can add vCenter Servers to vMA with AD authentication. This is considered to be more secure than the default fastpass authentication, which maintains a local cache of the credentials.
The domain user or its AD group should be assigned at least a read only role at the target vCenter Server.
The following procedure explains how to add the vCenter Server to the vMA by using AD authentication:
Log in to the vMA console or SSH as
vi-admin.Issue the following command:
vifp addserver <vCenter> --authpolicy adauth --username <domain>\\<domain admin>or
vifp addserver <vCenter> --authpolicy adauth --username <domainuser>@<domain>Examples:
vifp addserver vcenterhost001.vdescribed.lab --authpolicy adauth --username vdescribed\\vcenteruser001 vifp addserver vcenter5x.vdescibed.com --authpolicy adauth --username [email protected]
Issue the command
vifp listserversto verify that...