Under Endpoints, select Fabric Groups
Enter a name for the Fabric Group and select a Fabric Administrator. If you don’t see any resources, re-check your vCenter Endpoint and ensure the configuration is correct.
Now you essentially given more permissions to said admin – logout – time for a drink or wait for 2 minutes whilst looking into the nowhere.
Next we need to create a Machine Prefix. Whilst not REALLY needed (you can overwrite hostnames via custom property) it is still a requirement when creating a Business Group
Browse to Infrastructure > Administration > Machine Prefixes
Note: If you do not see the option, then log back out, wait 5 minutes and then back in again. It means the permissions aren’t ‘right’ yet and may still need a bit to sync (Fabric Admin permissions that is)
Here I add two prefixes, one for Windows and one for Linux
Now I want that every VM deployed via vRA is being deployed into a particular OU in Active Directory.
Here you can see I have the OU vRA7 machines
Now navigate to Administration > Active Directory Policy
Click New
Now enter an ID – select the newly created AD Endpoint and type in the Domain. Also enter the OU DN
Hopefully you won’t receive an error
Now navigate to Users & Groups > Business Groups
Click New
Enter a name, email address and select the newly created AD Policy
Enter the AD groups for the appropriate rules. Note: Support User means that someone can submit requests on BEHALF of someone. Here I don’t need that role.
The majority of VMs deployed in my environment are Linux based – so this is the default prefix I select. Active Directory Container is only needed for WIM provisioning
That is it.
Next will be Reservations and Reservation Policies