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#Vsphere 6 keygen kat install

There is also a good KB about this with the name Deploying and using the SSL Certificate Automation Tool 5.5 ( 2057340).

#Vsphere 6 keygen kat install

The next step is to download the vCenter Certificate Automation Tool 5.5 ( VMware SSL Certificate Automation Tool) and install it.

#Vsphere 6 keygen kat how to

There is a good post here how to do that. The easiest way is to modify the default Microsoft CA Web Server template settings to meet the VMware certificate requirements.

But before, you also need a special Certificate Template only for VMware. after installing the Active Directory Certificate Services ( installation steps) and the Certification Authority Web Enrollment Support ( installation steps) on a Windows server you can submit certificate requests. If you do not have already, you need a Root CA. Creating certificate request and obtain vCenter SSL certificate Here is the point: “… such as a value that indicates an expired certificate.” No doubt, it has to be replaced. I have also tried to connect to the vCenter with PowerCLI: net based vSphere Client, or I get an empty inventory in the Web Client. I know that you have already figured out what was the situation: the certificate has expired: So I cannot even login into the old. The self-signed certificate for the vCenter was valid for two years, in my case exactly from 27th of Aug, 2014 to 27th of Aug, 2016. The first is about creating request and self-signed certificate for the vCenter server, in the second we will replace them (plus troubleshooting…) and in the last third post we will check the other components. (It’s Hungarian, but the error messages are English 😀 ) I wrote about this issue in Aug, 2014, check this post for the details. The solution was the following: I had to create stronger self-signed certificate for the vCenter and replace it. So because of we had 512 bits cert, in the Web Client I had an empty inventory and a lot addition errors. The new JRE 1.7.0_45 version doesn’t support any more the certificates which are weaker than 1024 bits.

I have upgraded the vCenter Server to the 5.5 U1c, but with the 5.5 U1 the JRE has been also updated. In 2014 we had the version vCenter Server 5.5.0b. This was comming from an old vSphere 4.0 installation, from 2011. At that time we were using a vCenter certificate ( rui.crt), which had only 512 bits RSA public key. The ‘Self-Signed Story’ has started two years ago, exactly in Aug, 2014.