VAMI Certificate in SSL Hybrid Mode

When you’ve configured your vCenter Server Appliance to be a subordinate certificate authority, the VAMI interface at https://vcenter:5480 doesn’t use the new certificate, and it uses a self-signed certificate. In this post, I show you how to resolve this.

First, SSH into the vCSA and locate the certificate file you signed at your CA for the vCSA appliance, it should be named something like vmca.crt or vmca.cer.

Copy and rename that file:

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Core Services needed to run VMware vSphere

Often when we set up vSphere environments, there are already some things running. Sometimes it may be an Active Directory domain with DNS, NTP, CA, and all that setup. However, if you’re setting up a completely new environment, none of that may exist. What should you do then? We’ll cover all of that in this post.

People often discard the importance of core services. For example, they install vSphere with static entries in the host file instead of using a DNS server. It may work, but it’s hell to operate and maintain. When shit hits the fan, and eventually it does, it helps to have followed the best practices described in this post.

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My first post

I followed Dave Ceddias awesome guide on how to get a Gatsbyjs blog up and running, you’ll find the guide here.

My requirements was a minimal blog that was easy to manage. I needed to be able to write in markup syntax and have code higlighting.

Gatsbyjs is really aweseom, it lets med do all that and is lightning fast!

Wish me good luck!

It’s alive!!