Can vCenter authenticate against FreeIPA instead of Active Directory? If so, how would you set it up?
We have a pure Linux environment (CentOS) and need to have vCenter and our VM's have the same users. vCenter is deployed as a Linux appliance. Would prefer not to have a Windows machine in our environment.
The VMware vCenter appliance (SuSE Linux-based) uses Likewise (open?) for Active Directory authentication. See the notes on joining AD here.
That would be your starting point; examining interoperability between Likewise and FreeIPA...
I've just went through coupling Vcenter 5.5 and FreeIPA. You can add it as OpenLDAP identity source and add individual users to a vcenter roles. unfortunately I couldn't operate groups, can't even see them in the list.
