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…

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…