Last week on Twitter Jason Shiplett (Blog/Twitter) raised the question about configuring VMware App Volumes to use Windows Integrated Authentication when connecting to the backend SQL database. While this is supported in App Volumes the documentation (v2.6 of the User Guide located HERE) doesn’t mention the “How” of setting this up. Now usually this isn’t much of a challenge if using using/requiring Windows Integrated Authentication for SQL connectivity, you simple create or use an existing Active Directory user account with the needed SQL permissions to make the connection. Easy peasy.
Well, for App Volumes if it was that straight forward there would be no need for a blog post. When running through the App Volumes Manager installation (documented HERE) when you get to the “Database Server’’ dialog you will notice the two SQL authentication methods. But pay close attention to the Windows Integrated Authentication option, the key here is the mention of “automatically use this server’s SYSTEM account” and no ability to specify an actual user account as you would normally see: