Creating a new local user from vCenter (with vSphere 5.1)

For 5.1: Log in using the user account: admin@System-Domain You set up the password during installation.

This is a bit unclear for users, but is in the documentation.

You may be locked out after three incorrect attempts, but this will reset after about 15 minutes.

You will then be able to configure everything, particularly adding your Local/Domain Administrator user to the sso admin role.

NB. The documentation is a bit dense, but there is a nice blog post here, which has helped me. The final link I will give is a table of Roles vs. install versions which may be helpful. People are using the simple install which is causing problems later on.

For 5.5: You can log in using Administrator@vsphere.local

With the host selected in vCenter, click the Configuration tab, then click Authentication Services. By default, you only have Local Authentication at the host level, but if you click Properties on this screen, it will bring up a window allowing you to enable Active Directory as an auth service and specify the domain to use.