Daily Archives: October 6, 2012

VMware has published information about upgrading to 5.1 and the required length of host certificates.  In my case, I verified before hand that my certificates were the appropriate length so I proceeded, but as it turns out, my vCenter certificates were not the proper length. Our vCenter was installed first […]

Depending on organizational or technical requirements, you may have a need to replace the default certificates for vCenter or ESXi.  This is easily accomplished once you understand the process. Create a private key Create a certificate request Obtain the certificate from a certificate authority Convert the certificate to PFX format […]