{"id":3769,"date":"2015-07-15T15:11:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T07:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vspherestorage.com\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2015-07-15T15:11:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T23:11:44","slug":"custom-certificate-on-the-outside-vmware-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vspherestorage.com\/?p=3769","title":{"rendered":"Custom certificate on the outside, VMware CA…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Custom certificate on the outside, VMware CA (VMCA) on the inside – Replacing vCenter 6.0\u2019s SSL Certificate<\/p>\n

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A customer recently asked me \u201cHow do I replace the \u201cexternal\u201d SSL certificate of vCenter but still use VMCA in default mode?\u201d Ever curious, I asked \u201cWhy?\u201d. His security team required that any \u201cexternally\u201d facing management web pages needed to have a custom certificate that chained up to the corporate PKI. But behind that, they [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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Custom certificate on the outside, VMware CA (VMCA) on the inside – Replacing vCenter 6.0\u2019s SSL Certificate Custom certificate on the outside, VMware CA… A customer recently asked me \u201cHow do I replace the \u201cexternal\u201d SSL certificate of vCenter but still use VMCA in default mode?\u201d Ever curious, I asked \u201cWhy?\u201d. 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