From last 2 days I was working on using signed certificates for my vSphere lab and was determined to replace my self-signed certificate with signed certificate generated by my CA server.

I have written a blog post on how to setup CA server and how to generate signed certificates and how to replace them. If you have missed earlier post of this series you can read them from below links:

1: Installing and Configuring CA Server

2: Creating Certificate Templates

3: Creating SSL Web Certificates Template for VMware

4: Replacing vSphere SSL Certificates

I must say this journey of learning use of signed SSL certificates were not easy for me and I did made a few mistakes before setting everything up right. But I guess it was for my own good that I made these mistakes because then I had to do a lot of troubleshooting to set things correctly and learned quite few things while doing so.… Read More