Tag Archives: vCenter 6.0 SSL Certificate

Tips to update the certificate request with SANs (subject alternative names)

When we deploy our custom certificate in the https://<vrops>/admin UI, vROps will take care of distribute that same certificate to all vROps nodes. Because vROps uses one certificate for all nodes, we must have every nodes’ IP address and FQDN … Continue reading

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Options to check and alert the vcenter certificate expiration

Last week one of our vCenter went down because of the machine certificate got expired and it took some time to find out the issue so I thought it will be helpful to show the options to verify the certificate … Continue reading

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Lookup service fails with the certificate error for external VMware solution like NSX Manager,VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware vSphere Replication or vSheild Manager.

Some solutions, such as VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware vSphere Replication, or vSheild Manager are always installed on a different machine than the associated vCenter Server system or Platform Services Controller that manages the certificates for the solution. If you … Continue reading

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Replacing vCenter 6.0 SSL Certificate.

To generate the certificate we need to have Microsoft Certificate Authority server with the vSphere 6.0 Template for SSL Certificate.Pls check my other blog on creating the new template for vSphere 6.0. update 04\02\2016 Before proceeding to change the certificate, … Continue reading

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