{"id":1748,"date":"2025-12-18T16:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:11:17","slug":"renaming-vcenter-sso-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/renaming-vcenter-sso-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaming vCenter SSO Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoopsie, I made boo boo, How me fix?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qfMAEm7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qfMAEm7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1059\" height=\"595\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/cloud-foundation\/2019\/10\/01\/repointing-vcenter-server-to-another-sso-domain\/\">Repointing vCenter Server to another SSO Domain &#8211; VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this example I will be repointing a single vCenter Server (version: 7.0.3) in the SSO Domain \u201ccsphere.local\u201d to an entire new SSO Domain named \u201cvsphere.local\u201c. Since there is no other vCenter Server\u2019s in the vsphere.local SSO Domain, a pre-check is not required, thus we will not have any conflicts to resolve.<\/p>\n<p>In my lab I am repointing vCenter.zewwy.ca which is my vCenter Server. Notice that my Single Sign-On domain is csphere.local currently.<\/p>\n<p>From the appliance shell we can run cmsso-util to review our command syntax. Here we can also see the other functions of the cmsso-util command such as unregister, reconfigure, repoint (for repointing a vCenter Server to another SSO Site), and domain-repoint. We will be using the domain-repoint argument to point our vCenter Server to a new SSO Domain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/TM3jN3O.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/TM3jN3O.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1097\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since we are not migrating this vCenter Server into an existing SSO Domain, the is no need to do a pre-check to review any possible data conflicts between the Source and Destination domains. We begin repointing with the following command:<\/p>\n<pre> cmsso-util domain-repoint -m execute --src-emb-admin Administrator --dest-domain-name vsphere.local<\/pre>\n<p>NOTE: The SSO Administrator (Administrator@csphere.local) credentials ARE REQUIRED. Also, the Destination domain name (&#8211;dest-domain-name) equals the name of the new SSO Domain you are pointing the Source vCenter Server to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/s7sEi8b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/s7sEi8b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"834\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yay it worked I can finally successfully sign into vsphere&#8230; dang one typo costed about 20 min\u00a0 of time, crazy, but I guess it&#8217;s slightly better than having to do a whole rebuild which takes a bit more time, but not far off sheesh. Hope this post helps someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoopsie, I made boo boo, How me fix? Source:\u00a0 Repointing vCenter Server to another SSO Domain &#8211; VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog In this example I will be repointing a single vCenter Server (version: 7.0.3) in the SSO Domain \u201ccsphere.local\u201d to an entire new SSO Domain named \u201cvsphere.local\u201c. Since there is no other vCenter Server\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/renaming-vcenter-sso-domain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Renaming vCenter SSO Domain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[487,88],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypervisors","tag-sso-domain","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}