6.5.1
Table Of Contents
- Platform Services Controller Administration
- Contents
- About Platform Services Controller Administration
- Updated Information
- Getting Started with Platform Services Controller
- vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller Deployment Types
- Deployment Topologies with External Platform Services Controller Instances and High Availability
- Understanding vSphere Domains, Domain Names, and Sites
- Platform Services Controller Capabilities
- Managing Platform Services Controller Services
- Managing the Platform Services Controller Appliance
- vSphere Authentication with vCenter Single Sign-On
- Understanding vCenter Single Sign-On
- Configuring vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Sources
- Identity Sources for vCenter Server with vCenter Single Sign-On
- Set the Default Domain for vCenter Single Sign-On
- Add a vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Source
- Edit a vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Source
- Remove a vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Source
- Use vCenter Single Sign-On With Windows Session Authentication
- vCenter Server Two-Factor Authentication
- Using vCenter Single Sign-On as the Identity Provider for Another Service Provider
- Security Token Service STS
- Managing vCenter Single Sign-On Policies
- Managing vCenter Single Sign-On Users and Groups
- Add vCenter Single Sign-On Users
- Disable and Enable vCenter Single Sign-On Users
- Delete a vCenter Single Sign-On User
- Edit a vCenter Single Sign-On User
- Add a vCenter Single Sign-On Group
- Add Members to a vCenter Single Sign-On Group
- Remove Members From a vCenter Single Sign-On Group
- Delete vCenter Single Sign-On Solution Users
- Change Your vCenter Single Sign-On Password
- vCenter Single Sign-On Security Best Practices
- vSphere Security Certificates
- Certificate Requirements for Different Solution Paths
- Certificate Management Overview
- Managing Certificates with the Platform Services Controller Web Interface
- Explore Certificate Stores from the Platform Services Controller Web Interface
- Replace Certificates with New VMCA-Signed Certificates from the Platform Services Controller Web Interface
- Make VMCA an Intermediate Certificate Authority from the Platform Services Controller Web Interface
- Set up Your System to Use Custom Certificates from the Platform Services Controller
- Managing Certificates from the vSphere Web Client
- Managing Certificates with the vSphere Certificate Manager Utility
- Certificate Manager Options and the Workflows in This Document
- Regenerate a New VMCA Root Certificate and Replace All Certificates
- Make VMCA an Intermediate Certificate Authority (Certificate Manager)
- Generate CSR with vSphere Certificate Manager and Prepare Root Certificate (Intermediate CA)
- Replace VMCA Root Certificate with Custom Signing Certificate and Replace All Certificates
- Replace Machine SSL Certificate with VMCA Certificate (Intermediate CA)
- Replace Solution User Certificates with VMCA Certificates (Intermediate CA)
- Replace All Certificates with Custom Certificate (Certificate Manager)
- Revert Last Performed Operation by Republishing Old Certificates
- Reset All Certificates
- Manual Certificate Replacement
- Managing Services and Certificates With CLI Commands
- Troubleshooting Platform Services Controller
- Determining the Cause of a Lookup Service Error
- Unable to Log In Using Active Directory Domain Authentication
- vCenter Server Login Fails Because the User Account Is Locked
- VMware Directory Service Replication Can Take a Long Time
- Export a Platform Services Controller Support Bundle
- Platform Services Controller Service Logs Reference
Set up Your System to Use Custom Certificates from the Platform
Services Controller
You can use the Platform Services Controller to set up your environment to use custom certificates.
You can generate Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) for each machine and for each solution user using
the Certificate Manager utility. When you submit the CSRs to your internal or third-party CA, the CA
returns signed certificates and the root certificate. You can upload both the root certificate and the signed
certificates from the Platform Services Controller UI.
Generate Certificate Signing Requests with vSphere Certificate Manager
(Custom Certificates)
You can use vSphere Certificate Manager to generate Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) that you can
then use with your enterprise CA or send to an external certificate authority. You can use the certificates
with the different supported certificate replacement processes.
You can run the Certificate Manager tool from the command line as follows:
Windows
C:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\vmcad\certificate-manager.bat
Linux
/usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certificate-manager
Prerequisites
vSphere Certificate Manager prompts you for information. The prompts depend on your environment and
on the type of certificate you want to replace.
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For any CSR generation, you are prompted for the password of the administrator@vsphere.local
user, or for the administrator of the vCenter Single Sign-On domain that you are connecting to.
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If you are generating a CSR in an environment with an external Platform Services Controller, you are
prompted for the host name or IP address of the Platform Services Controller.
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To generate a CSR for a machine SSL certificate, you are prompted for certificate properties, which
are stored in the certool.cfg file. For most fields, you can accept the default or provide site-specific
values. The FQDN of the machine is required.
Procedure
1 On each machine in your environment, start vSphere Certificate Manager and select option 1.
2 Supply the password and the Platform Services Controller IP address or host name if prompted.
3 Select option 1 to generate the CSR, answer the prompts and exit Certificate Manager.
As part of the process, you have to provide a directory. Certificate Manager places the certificate and
key files in the directory.
4 If you also want to replace all solution user certificates, restart Certificate Manager.
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