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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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Contains the following Key Usages: Digital Signature, Non Repudiation, Key Encipherment
Note Do not use CRL Distribution Points, Authority Information Access, or Certificate Template
Information in any custom certificates.
See also VMware Knowledge Base article 2112014, Obtaining vSphere certificates from a Microsoft
Certificate Authority.
Procedure
1 Start vSphere Certificate Manager and select option 1.
2 Select option 2 to start certificate replacement and respond to the prompts.
vSphere Certificate Manager prompts you for the following information:
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Password for administrator@vsphere.local.
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Valid Machine SSL custom certificate (.crt file).
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Valid Machine SSL custom key (.key file).
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Valid signing certificate for the custom machine SSL certificate (.crt file).
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If you are running the command on a management node in a multi-node deployment, IP address
of the Platform Services Controller.
What to do next
If you are upgrading from a vSphere 5.x environment, you might have to replace the vCenter Single Sign-
On certificate inside vmdir. See Replace the VMware Directory Service Certificate in Mixed Mode
Environments.
Replace Solution User Certificates with Custom Certificates
Many companies only require that you replace certificates of services that are accessible externally.
However, Certificate Manager also supports replacing solution user certificates. Solution users are
collections of services, for example, all services that are associated with the vSphere Web Client In multi-
node deployments replace the machine solution user certificate on the Platform Services Controller and
the full set of solution users on each management node.
When you are prompted for a solution user certificate, provide the complete signing certificate chain of
the third-party CA.
The format should be similar to the following.
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
Signing certificate
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
CA intermediate certificates
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