Joining VMware VSCA with separate PSC to the Microsoft AD

Solution 1:

I'm not so sure about the previous versions of VSCA, but you can easily join VSCA v6.5 to Active Directory Domain. It will allow central management for groups and users within existing AD, so you'll be able to give them permissions to manage your vSphere infrastructure. And yeah, the integration will be possible even in case you're running vCenter separately. The important thing here is that you'll need to join only the platform controller service to AD, not the vCenter itself.

To answer your last question, the timeout can be modified here: /etc/profile.d/tmout.sh. Find the detailed guidelines in this article: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/vmware-vcenter-server-appliance-vcsa-and-after-install-tricks