Im having a randomly occurring event with the domain admin, which is part of Administrators group on vCentre. Attempting to login to the web console with " domain.local\Administrator" or "domain\Administrator" will intermittently fail. Even using the authenticator plugin, it will fail on authentication sometimes. It varies which one will work "domain.local\" or "domain\", also both may fail but the authenticator application will allow login (which shows the "domain\") being used. Adding to that, log out, and try with the method that failed before, and it will work.
This is not computer specific either, trying on a vm running inside the vm environment, a laptop, another desktop. Only thing common is this is using the web console in chrome. DNS does not seem to be an issue on the network. Looking in the events for the Datacentre in vm web console, i see no authentication errors.
Another issue which I'm sure has to do with this in some way, Veeam backups run over night and will fail halfway through with authentication failure trying to snapshot VM's. In an attempt to try and get successful backups, I broke the backups down; one at 2200HRS and another later at 0400HRS. The 2200HRS backup failed halfway through with authentication issues, the 0400HRS backup proceeded successfully, having only one VM to backup.
I dont know what would be causing these authentication issues, and whats further stranger, is how "domain.local\" wont work but when specifying "domain\" will work, or vice versa. This issue has been a recent one, only starting within the last 2 months.
At no time has the domain admin account in use here ever been locked out, password does not expire.
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