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You must know the following information to run Certificate Manager with this option.
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Password for administrator@vsphere.local.
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Host name or IP address of the Platform Services Controller if you are running on a
vCenter Server system with an external Platform Services Controller.
Procedure
1 Start vSphere Certificate Manager and select option 6.
2 Respond to the prompts.
vSphere Certificate Manager replaces all solution user certificates.
Replace All Certificates with Custom Certificate (Certificate
Manager)
You can use the vSphere Certificate Manager utility to replace all certificates with custom certificates.
Before you start the process, you must send CSRs to your CA. You can use Certificate Manager to
generate the CSRs.
One option is to replace only the machine SSL certificate, and to use the solution user certificates that are
provisioned by VMCA. Solution user certificates are used only for communication between vSphere
components.
When you use custom certificates, you replace the VMCA-signed certificates with custom certificates. You
can use the Platform Services Controller Web interface, the vSphere Certificate Manager utility, or CLIs
for manual certificate replacement. Certificates are stored in VECS.
To replace all certificates with custom certificates, you have to run Certificate Manager several times. The
workflow gives the complete set of steps for replacing both machine SSL certificates and solution user
certificates. It explains what to do in environments with embedded Platform Services Controller or
external Platform Services Controller.
1 You generate certificate signing requests for the machine SSL certificate and the solution user
certificates separately on each machine.
a To generate CSRs for the machine SSL certificate, you select Option 1.
b If company policy does not allow a hybrid deployment, you select Option 5.
2 After you received the signed certificates and the root certificate from your CA, you replace the
machine SSL certificate on each machine by using Option 1.
3 If you also want to replace the solution user certificates, you select Option 5.
4 Finally, in a multi-node deployment, you have to repeat the process on each node.
Procedure
1 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.
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