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 ...
