Can VDP be set up using a local, non-domain, user account? I have followed the VDP admin guide, but cannot get past the vCenter registration step,
I have been installing the VDP appliance on my laptop Lab and hit a wall at the configuration step. I think the problem is that I don’t have a domain controller as vCenter won’t install on a DC VM and I don’t want to spin up a separate VM just for DC. I created a separate VDP admin local account on my vCenter server and gave it admin rights to the entire vCenter tree in VIClient. Whenever I try to register the user, I get the following. TIA.
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The admin guide gives this guidance:
User Account Configuration
Before the vCenter user account can be used with vSphere Data Protection, or before the SSO admin user can
be used with vSphere Data Protection, these users should be specifically added as administrator on the
vCenter root node. The following steps are used to configure the vSphere Data Protection user or SSO admin
user using the vSphere Client.
1 Login to the vSphere Web Client and select vCenter > Hosts and Clusters.
2 On the left pane, click on the vCenter Server.
3 Click the Manage tab and then the Permissions sub-tab.
4 Click the Add permission icon.
5 Click Add.
6 From the Domain drop-down select domain, server, or SYSTEM-DOMAIN.
7 Select the user that will administer vSphere Data Protection or be the SSO admin user and then click Add.
8 Click OK
9 From the Assigned Role drop down select Administrator.
10 Confirm that the Propagate to child objects box is checked.
11 Click OK.
To Verify that user is listed under Administrators, go to Home > Administration > Role Manager and click the
Administrator role. The user you just added should be listed to the right of that role.
IMPORTANT If the vSphere Data Protection backup user using the VDP-configure UI belongs to a domain
account then it should be used in the format “SYSTEM-DOMAIN\admin” format in VDP-configure. If the
user name is entered in the format “admin@SYSTEM-DOMAIN” format then tasks related to backup job may
not show up on the Recent Running tasks.