I recently deployed an external PSC using the recently-made-public VCSA 6.0 U1 appliance. Initial deployment of the external PSC went off without a hitch. No problems whatsoever. However, when it comes to then deploying the VCSA with an external PSC, I get invalid credentials.
The PSC and VCSA are on the same subnet, and I am deploying from my desktop. There is no firewall between them, and no east-west traffic control that could be disrupting communication. I can also telnet to the PSC from my desktop on 443. No internal certs are being used, just the standard self-signed certs from VMware.
I am NOT using the PSC HA config where an F5 (or any other load balancer) comes into play. Just a PSC and a vCenter appliance (with the same setup in another datacenter and enhanced linked mode enabled .... if I ever get to that point).
Any ideas? I believe I have exhausted all Vmkware KB's and googled this thing to death.
I also see these things in the csd log, which correspond with the invalid credentials messages in the vcsa logs :
2015-09-15 15:17:51] [INFO] Request 1151 - [sso: QyUT-UDyA-Okks-RXbt].validate: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:18:12] [ERRO] Request 1151 - [sso: QyUT-UDyA-Okks-RXbt].validate: Error Status ERROR_GET_DOMAIN_NAME: Failed to query SSO domain from '005F2F80': 58
[2015-09-15 15:18:19] [INFO] Request 1153 - [session: session].ping: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:18:49] [INFO] Request 1154 - [session: session].ping: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:19:19] [INFO] Request 1155 - [session: session].ping: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:19:47] [INFO] Request 1157 - [sso: QyUT-UDyA-Okks-RXbt].validate: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:20:08] [ERRO] Request 1157 - [sso: QyUT-UDyA-Okks-RXbt].validate: Error Status ERROR_GET_DOMAIN_NAME: Failed to query SSO domain from '005F2D18': 58
[2015-09-15 15:20:08] [INFO] Request 1158 - [session: session].ping: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:20:19] [INFO] Request 1160 - [session: session].ping: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:20:49] [INFO] Request 1161 - [session: session].ping: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:21:19] [INFO] Request 1162 - [session: session].ping: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:21:49] [INFO] Request 1163 - [session: session].ping: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:22:11] [INFO] Request 1165 - [sso: QyUT-UDyA-Okks-RXbt].validate: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:22:32] [ERRO] Request 1165 - [sso: QyUT-UDyA-Okks-RXbt].validate: Error Status ERROR_GET_DOMAIN_NAME: Failed to query SSO domain from '005F2D70': 58
[2015-09-15 15:22:32] [INFO] Request 1166 - [session: session].ping: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:22:49] [INFO] Request 1168 - [session: session].ping: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:23:19] [INFO] Request 1170 - [session: session].ping: Received.
[2015-09-15 15:23:44] [INFO] Request 1173 - [sso: QyUT-UDyA-Okks-RXbt].validate: Received.