For those of you that have installed vSphere 5.1 and tried to use your own trusted SSL certificates, you will probably find the experience extremely tedious, cumbersome, error prone, and vastly harder than any product you've used before. Now out is the VMware vCenter Certificate Automation tool v1.0, to make...
Today VMware announced their first stab at helping customers manage the SSL certificate replacement challenge that we face with vSphere 5.1: VMware vCenter Certificate Automation Tool v1.0. For anyone that has followed my 15-part series on vSphere 5.1 installation, you will know the certificate portions are quite a challenge and a source of...
This is the second part in a blog series of how to install and configure VMware Horizon View 5.2. In Part 1 we did the basic connection server install, and installed Adobe Flash player. Next up is configuring a trusted SSL certificate for VMware Horizon View. There are a number...
Welcome to a post which will let you easily update your VMware ESXi host SSL certificates. Last year when I was writing my 15-part vSphere 5.1 installation and configuration series I didn't include instructions on how to replace the ESXi SSL certificate. That process hasn't changed for ages, so I put it...
For Windows Server 2016/2019 and Windows 10, see my new post: Trusted Remote Desktop Services SSL Certs for Win10/2019 For Windows environments that want extra security, one of the features that has been around for ages is requiring TLS 1.0 for Windows RDP (Remote Desktop) connections. This functionality requires a...
As people quickly found out when vSphere 5.1 was released, installation and configuration of vSphere 5.1 SSL certificates was very painful and no accurate VMware documentation existed. Through a lot of work and help from some of my readers, I published a process that was pretty successful but required some workarounds and...
In this post I cover the basics of replacing the Log Browser and Web Client SSL certificates for vCenter 5.1 Update 1. However, as I've mentioned before, VMware has released the vCenter certificate automation tool. That tool automates the replacement of the Log Browser and web client certificates, among others....
UPDATE 4/28/2013: VMware has released the vCenter Certificate Automation tool. This is a better tool for replacing the vCenter SSL certificates (post-install), and does not require pre-staging the certificates. Since this is an official tool, and does more than my pre-staging method, I strongly urge you to follow my refreshed...
Welcome to the vSphere 5.1 Update 1 VUM SSL certificate replacement procedures. In Part 11 we installed VMware vCenter Update Manager (VUM) 5.1 Update 1. Recently VMware released the vCenter Certificate automation tool, which helps lessen the pain associated with replacing the self-signed certificates with trusted certificates. I recommend you use that...
In any enterprise environment, small or large, you should always used trusted SSL certificates for your VMware components. Very commonly people want to use a Microsoft Certificate Authority (CA). But, VMware requires certain properties be present in the SSL certificate to properly function. So you need to create a custom...
This is Part 5 of the 15-part vCenter 5.1 Update 1 installation series, and covers manually replacing the VMware inventory service SSL certificate. If you want to use the VMware vCenter Certificate Automation tool (highly recommended), then you can skip this part and go directly to Part 6. As a post-install process the...
Welcome to Part 3 of the 15 part vCenter 5.1 installation series, installing vCenter SSO SSL Certificates. IMPORTANT: Now that VMware has released the vCenter Certificate Automation Tool, I suggest you skip installing trusted SSL certificates during the install process and use the tool to do them post install. It's...