by Jan Schwoebel
If you are running vCenter 6.0 Update 1, you might have seen the following error.
Error occurred while processing request. Check vSphere WebClient logs for details.
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Guest User Mappings is a new feature in vSphere 6.
Enabling SSO accounts to login to guest OS provides users with additional capabilities to perform administrative tasks on guest virtual machines, such as, installing or upgrading the VMware Tools or configuring apps.
In order to configure the mapping, you will need to know the Guest administrative account. This new feature allows your vSphere Administrators to access the Virtual Machines and do certain tasks.
With vSphere 6, VMware introduced ESXi Account Lockout / ESXi Password Policy.
Two new settings are now available under the ESXi Host Advanced System Settings page:
In ESXi 6.0, VMware introduced the DCUI idle timeout. You can modify DCUI idle timeout via the Direct User Console Interface. You can specify the number of idle minutes that can elapse before you must log in again in DCUI.
Set the DCUI idle timeout to zero to disable it. The maximum value for the idle timeout is 1440 ~ 23.3hrs.
Yesterday, VMware released ESXi 6.0 Patch 1.
The new version is called ESXi 6.0.0b and includes more than 40 bug fixes in 10 different areas incl. VSAN.
Some of the fixes included in this patch release are:
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