All -
I just installed a fresh instance of vSphere 5.5 on a Win2k8 R2 virtual machine, with a separate virtual machine running SQL 2008 R2 housing the database. I've tried all of the recommendations in this forum, but when I log in with a domain account, I still receive the error: "Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems." I added the AD identity source, made it default, created new user and group accounts, etc, but I still receive the same error. I followed all of the install best practices and nothing else is running on the machines. Someone mentioned something about Windows Updates potentially breaking vCenter and/or SSO? How could that be possible?
If this happened to me in a pristine lab environment, then this can very well happen in a production environment. How does one successfully implement vSphere 5.5 without the assistance of VMware support if there is no solution to this error? I just don't understand how there are still issues with the vCenter installation since SSO was introduced. The install now is more error-proof than ever and it is still broken after install.
Please, anyone?