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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Smart cards

A smart card is a small plastic card with an embedded integrated circuit chip that can be read by a smart card reader (many laptops may have one integrated). To enable smart card authentication for vCenter authentication, you must first set up your clients before users can log in using a smart card:

  • With vSphere 6.0: Verify that the Client Integration Plugin is installed.
  • With vSphere 6.5 and 6.7: Verify that the Enhanced Authentication Plugin is installed.

Then the configuration of the PSC is a little different in versions 6.0 and 6.5. For the latest version, before you can enable smart card authentication, you must correctly configure the reverse proxy from the command line on the PSC (or the vCenter if you have an embedded ...

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