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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
VMCA and VMware Core Identity Services
Core identity services are part of every embedded deployment and every platform services node. VMCA
is part of every VMware core identity services group. Use the management CLIs and the
vSphere Web Client to interact with these services.
VMware core identity services include several components.
Table 3‑6. Core Identity Services
Service Description Included in
VMware Directory Service (vmdir) Handles SAML certificate management for
authentication in conjunction with vCenter Single
Sign-On.
Platform Services Controller
Embedded deployment
VMware Certificate Authority
(VMCA)
Issues certificates for VMware solution users,
machine certificates for machines on which services
are running, and ESXi host certificates. VMCA can be
used as is, or as an intermediary certificate authority.
VMCA issues certificates only to clients that can
authenticate to vCenter Single Sign-On in the same
domain.
Platform Services Controller
Embedded deployment
VMware Authentication Framework
Daemon (VMAFD)
Includes the VMware Endpoint Certificate Store
(VECS) and several other authentication services.
VMware administrators interact with VECS; the other
services are used internally.
Platform Services Controller
vCenter Server
Embedded deployment
VMware Endpoint Certificate Store Overview
VMware Endpoint Certificate Store (VECS) serves as a local (client-side) repository for certificates,
private keys, and other certificate information that can be stored in a keystore. You can decide not to use
VMCA as your certificate authority and certificate signer, but you must use VECS to store all vCenter
certificates, keys, and so on. ESXi certificates are stored locally on each host and not in VECS.
VECS runs as part of the VMware Authentication Framework Daemon (VMAFD). VECS runs on every
embedded deployment, Platform Services Controller node, and management node, and holds the
keystores that contain the certificates and keys.
VECS polls VMware Directory Service (vmdir) periodically for updates to the trusted root store. You can
also explicitly manage certificates and keys in VECS using vecs-cli commands. See vecs-cli Command
Reference.
VECS includes the following stores.
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