The Orchestrator Appliance contains a preconfigured OpenLDAP server that is suitable for experimental use in small- and medium-scale environments. To use the Orchestrator Appliance in a large-scale environment for production purposes, you can either set up a new directory service server and configure Orchestrator to work with it or configure Orchestrator to work with vCenter Single Sign On.

Orchestrator 5.1 supports two types of authentications:

LDAP authentication

Orchestrator connects to a working LDAP server.

vCenter Single Sign On authentication

Orchestrator authenticates through vCenter Single Sign On.

Important

If you want to use vCenter Orchestrator through the vSphere Web Client for managing vSphere inventory objects, you must configure Orchestrator to authenticate through vCenter Single Sign On.

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