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New vCenter and Edit vCenter field descriptions

Name Description
vCenter FQDN FQDN of vCenter.
User Name The user name to log in to vCenter.
Password The password that you use to log in to vCenter.
Authentication Type The authentication type that defines how Solution Deployment Manager performs user authentication. The options are:
  • SSO: Global username used to log in to vCenter to authenticate to an external Active Directory authentication server.

  • LOCAL: User created in vCenter

If you select the authentication type as SSO, the system displays the Is SSO managed by Platform Service Controller (PSC) field.

Is SSO managed by Platform Service Controller (PSC) The check box to specify if PSC manages SSO service. When you select the check box, the system enables PSC IP or FQDN.
PSC IP or FQDN The IP or FQDN of PSC.
Button Description
Save Saves any changes you make to FQDN, username, and authentication type of vCenter.
Refresh Refreshes the vCenter details.

Managed Hosts

Name Description
Host IP/FQDN The name of the ESXi host.
Host Name The IP address of the ESXi host.
Location The physical location of the ESXi host.
IPv6 The IPv6 address of the ESXi host.
Edit The option to edit the location and host.
Bulk Update Provides an option to change the location of more than one ESXi hosts.
noteNote

You must select a location before you click Bulk Update.

Update Saves the changes that you make to the location or hostname of the ESXi host.
Commit Commits the changes that you make to the ESXi host with location that is managed by vCenter.

Unmanaged Hosts

Name Description
Host IP/FQDN The name of the ESXi host.
ESXi Version Displays the versions of the ESXi host linked to vCenter FQDN.
noteNote

For Release 7.1, do not select the 5.0 and 5.1 versions.

IPv6 The IPv6 address of the ESXi host.
Button Description
Commit Saves all changes that you made to vCenter on the Map vCenter page.