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Table Of Contents
- Platform Services Controller Administration
- Contents
- About Platform Services Controller Administration
- 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
- Understanding 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 vSphere Client
- 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
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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.
See VMware Knowledge Base article https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2112281 for more information.
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 vSphere Client, 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.
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