Over the years I've written a number of blog posts about replacing the SSL certificates for vSphere. Back in the day it was exceedingly difficult and was very error prone (think 5.x and 6.x). However, VMware has made great strides with vSphere 7 in how you manage certificates. Yippee!For enterprises...
During installation of trusted SSL certificates for a VMware vSphere 7.0 lab environment, I ran into the following error when I was trying to replace the certificates: ERROR certificate-manager 'lstool get-site-id' failed: 1 This error was logged on my VCSA, in the /storage/log/vmware/vmcad/certificate-manager.log file. Some searching found VMware KB71120, which...
This is part 2 of the VSS Labs vCert Manager installation and configuration series. In Part 1 we got vCert Manager installed, and secured with a trusted SSL certificate. In this section we will get into the nuts and bolts configuration and start replacing certificates. vCert Manager Configuration 1. First...