Fixing an invalid vCenter STS certificate while using ‘cmsso-util’

During an issue I had with my lab environment while using the ‘cmsso-util’ command to join two of my lab vCenters to the same SSO domain, I also had another issue which I will talk about in this blog post. Once I fixed the previous issue, which was due to …

Where is my private key when using the vSphere UI?

Today a very quick post for anybody that is using the vSphere Client to generate a new .CSR to create a new certificate for the vCenter Server. I usually use the certificate-manager tool on the commandline, but I figured, let’s diversify my daily actions and let us use the vSphere …

Chicken and Egg problem with “cmsso-util domain-repoint” on vCenter

Today I came across a funny little issue on my lab environment. I was trying to use the “cmsso-util” tooling to play around and joining my second lab vCenter to the first vCenter Servers SSO Domain. You can read the following VMware piece of documentation if you want to know …

How to fix an expired VCSA Machine SSL certificate with a bugged vmware-eam service

Recently we’ve had some weird issues on one of our customers vCenter Servers. For starters the vMotion and Storage vMotion features weren’t working anymore because of time-outs. Which is weird and something I’ve never seen before. So we started troubleshooting the VCSA server and noticed that it couldn’t retrieve the …