Installing vCenter Server does not complete with Windows Server 2008
Posted: November 29, 2011 Filed under: VMware, Windows | Tags: 2008, fails, install, server 2008, vcenter, windows 2008, windows server Leave a commentThis is a quickie post to share what I found when installing vCenter Server on a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition virtual machine. This VMware KB article is the error we received.
Apparently, during the installation of vCenter Server, Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services is installed. I hadn’t noticed this before. We had no server roles installed prior to installing vCenter, but after clicking through the error boxes that appeared, we saw that AD LDS, sure enough, appeared to be installed.