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Managing certificates for existing hosts

About this task

By default, the certificate status of the host or vCenter that is migrated from earlier release is invalid. To perform any operation on the host from Solution Deployment Manager, you require a valid certificate. Therefore, you must get the valid certificate and accept the certificate.

Depending on the host type and the validity of the certificate, use appropriate steps to generate the certificate, and then accept the certificate.

Before you begin

Require permissions to add a host to generate certificates.

Procedure

  1. In VM Management Tree, select a location.
  2. On the Hosts tab, in the Hosts for Selected Location <location name> area, select a host.
  3. (Optional) On an Appliance Virtualization Platform host, click More Actions > Generate/Accept Certificate, and on the Certificate dialog box, do one of the following:
    • If the certificate is valid, click Accept Certificate.

    • If the certificate is invalid, click Generate Certificate, and then click Accept Certificate.

  4. For the ESXi host, do one of the following:
    • If the certificate is valid, on the Certificate dialog box, click More Actions > Generate/Accept Certificate, and click Accept Certificate.

    • If the certificate is invalid, log in to the ESXi host, validate the certificate, and then from Solution Deployment Manager, accept the certificate.

      For more information, see "Generating new self-signed certificates for the ESXi host".

  5. For vCenter, do the following:
    1. Click Map vCenter, select the vCenter server, and click Edit.
    2. In the Certificate dialog box, accept certificate, and click Save.