Hi,
i was putting up a POC for a customer and i thought to use vSphere 5.1 to do that since it was a good way to get hands on the new version.
I found some weird things setting up the environment, for example i was able to enable "Use Windows session credentials" in the web client manually adding the domain in the SSO configuration and as expected it shows "domain\username" form when you thick the flag; if i try to enter credentials manually with the same format authentication fails. If i try to log in using "username@domain.com" it works just fine.
On the vSphere client it's just the other way around: it fails when i use the "Use Windows session credentials". If i enter manually "domain\username" it fails again and it works only with the usual "username@domain.com"
I can only add that during the setup of the SSO server i had a failure in adding the source of active directory but this seems to be common around the internet and i just added the source manually later on.
Another weirdness is that in the Web Client i can't see performance statistics of VMs because it says that there is no data while in the vSphere Client they are working just fine.
I executed the installation of vCenter 3 times but i always had the same results and behavior.
Now, for lack of time for troubleshooting, i just rolled back to 5.0 update 1b but i would be really curious if this version of vCenter is just as buggy as it seems or if there are reasons and fixes for the things i mentioned.
Thank you.