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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
3 Navigate to the Certificate Management UI.
a From the Home menu, select Administration.
b Under Certificates, click Certificate Management.
4 Enter the credentials of your vCenter Server.
5 Explore the certificates stored inside the VMware Endpoint Certificate Store (VECS).
VMware Endpoint Certificate Store Overview explains what is in the individual stores.
6 To view details for a certificate, select the certificate and click View Details.
7 Use the Actions menu to renew or replace certificates.
For example, if you replace the existing certificate, you can later remove the old root certificate.
Remove certificates only if you are sure that they are no longer in use.
Replace Certificates with New VMCA-Signed Certificates from the
vSphere Client
You can replace all VMCA-signed certificates with new VMCA-signed certificates. This process is called
renewing certificates. You can renew selected certificates or all certificates in your environment from the
vSphere Client.
Prerequisites
For certificate management, you have to supply the password of the administrator of the local domain
(administrator@vsphere.local by default). If you are renewing certificates for a vCenter Server system,
you also have to supply the vCenter Single Sign-On credentials for a user with administrator privileges on
the vCenter Server system.
Procedure
1 Log in with the vSphere Client to the vCenter Server connected to the Platform Services Controller.
2 Specify the user name and password for administrator@vsphere.local or another member of the
vCenter Single Sign-On Administrators group.
If you specified a different domain during installation, log in as administrator@mydomain.
3 Navigate to the Certificate Management UI.
a From the Home menu, select Administration.
b Under Certificates, click Certificate Management.
4 Enter the credentials of your vCenter Server.
5 Renew the machine SSL certificate for the local system.
a Select Machine SSL Certificate.
b Click Actions > Renew.
A message appears that the certificate is renewed.
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