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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
2 Regenerate a New VMCA Root Certificate and Replace All Certificates
You can regenerate the VMCA root certificate, and replace the local machine SSL certificate, and
the local solution user certificates with VMCA-signed certificates. In multi-node deployments, run
vSphere Certificate Manager with this option on the Platform Services Controller and then run the
utility again on all other nodes and select
Replace Machine SSL certificate with VMCA Certificate and
Replace Solution user certificates with VMCA certificates.
3 Make VMCA an Intermediate Certificate Authority (Certificate Manager)
You can make VMCA an Intermediate CA by following the prompts from Certificate Manager utility.
After you complete the process, VMCA signs all new certificates with the full chain. If you want, you
can use Certificate Manager to replace all existing certificates with new VMCA-signed certificates.
4 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.
5 Revert Last Performed Operation by Republishing Old Certificates
When you perform a certificate management operation by using vSphere Certificate Manager, the
current certificate state is stored in the BACKUP_STORE store in VECS before certificates are
replaced. You can revert the last performed operation and return to the previous state.
6 Reset All Certificates
Use the Reset All Certificates option if you want to replace all existing vCenter certificates
with certificates that are signed by VMCA.
Certificate Manager Options and the Workflows in This Document
You run Certificate Manager options in sequence to complete a workflow. Several options, for example,
generating CSRs, are used in different workflows.
Replace VMCA Root Certificate with Custom Signing Certificate and Replace
All Certificates.
This is a single-option workflow (Option 2) can be used by itself, or in the intermediate certificate
workflow. See Regenerate a New VMCA Root Certificate and Replace All Certificates.
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