I am trying to setup an eval of Horizon View 6. The text environment will be small, and I want to use linked clones. The setup is as follows:
vSphere 5.5 hosts
vCenter 6 (appliance) - not joined to AD domain due to a bug in VCSA 5.5 & 6.0 with the way my AD domain is named; specifically, the domain name is ad.domain.net but the pre-Windows 2000 name is domain
View Connection on Windows 2012 R2 VM
View Composer on Windows 2012 R2 VM
SQL database on separate server
I've been following the instructions in the eval guide and this blog to set it up: Horizon View 6.0 | Sean's IT Blog
Everything with the prerequisites and setup went smoothly. I am now at the step where I link the Connection server with vCenter and Composer. The vCenter connection worked properly (using a local account I created within vCenter for View to use, with permissions defined in a role). On the Composer Settings page, I continue to get an error "Unable to connect to View Composer." The user account I am specifying is the Composer service account I created in AD called vcmpSvc, which has permissions in AD to create/delete computer objects and also is in the local administrators group on the Composer server. I am using the correct password, verified by logging in locally on the Composer server with the service account and launching a command prompt with admin elevation. I have tried these formats for the username:
vcmpSvc
domain\vcmpSvc
Also, the SOAP port is 18443 (unchanged from default) and the firewall is disabled on both the Connection and Composer server. What am I missing?