vCenter Server Certificate Status Alarm

Earlier this week I began receiving alarms from my vCenter regarding a Certificate Status Alarm.  I had not run into this particular error before and it took me a bit of investigation to get it solved. An unusual certificate description The alert kept repeating on an hourly interval and I…

Setup vCenter as Subordinate CA and Replace Host Certificates

Updated – 3/23/22:   Added some notes to regarding Certificate Chain Ordering after working working with a customer using a certificate exported directly from the Microsoft Certificate Management Console. I was trying to replace the self-signed certificates in my vSphere environment – for both the vCenter Server Appliance and the ESXi…