I have VSC 6.2P1 installed on a dedicated Windows 2012 server.
I also have a vSphere environment with two vCenter Servers.
They are both vCenter appliances running version 6.0.0 Build 3634794.
I successfully registered VSC with "vCenter Server A" and restarted my vSphere Web Client.
I logged back in and got a blank white screen. The framework of the application existed but both the left, middle and right panes were blank white. No content at all.
I even logged in using a different browser - same issue.
I manually unregistered the VSC plugin using the VMware MOB, and the vSphere Web Client began working normally again.
The installation guide has some ambiguity in the notes about this:
"If you register VSC to a vCenter Server that is part of a multi-vCenter Server environment, each instance of VSC must be registered individually with a vCenter Server." - Makes it sound as if every vCenter Server in a multi-vCenter Server environment needs to be registered with its own VSC server.
"If you are using Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere in an environment where a single VMware vSphere Web Client is managing multiple vCenter Servers, you need to register an instance of VSC with each vCenter Server so that there is a 1:1 pairing between VSC and the vCenter Server. Doing this enables you to manage all of the servers running vCenter 5.5 or later in both linked mode and non-linked mode from a single vSphere Web Client." - This makes it sound as if I only need to register each vCenter Server that I want to manage with VSC, but doesn't require this if I don't want to manage a specific vCenter Server with VSC.
"Note: In a multiple vCenter Server environment, you must register each vCenter Server with an instance of VSC, even if some of the vCenter Servers are not associated with NetApp Storage." - And then this makes it sound like I need to register every vCenter Server in the environment with an instance of VSC regardless of whether I want to manage the vCenter server with VSC.
It goes on to say, "Also, if the VMware inventory includes one vCenter Server that does not have a VSC server registered to it, you will not be able to see any instances of VSC, even though the VMware inventory has one or more vCenter Servers that are registered with VSC." - However, what I experienced was that the vSphere Web Client wouldn't fully load, not just the VSC instance/plugin.
Can anyone tell me exactly how this works? And can anyone tell me what the failure mode looks like if this is done improperly? Is it possibly the same failure mode I described?
I've collected logs from the VSC server and opened a case with NetApp Support - still waiting to hear back. Just hoping someone here might have some useful experience to share.
