Certification management
Starting with vSphere 6.0, the new PSC component includes not only the SSO part, but also a certification authority, VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA), for certification management of all vSphere infrastructure elements (unfortunately, it is not yet being used by all the other VMware products). This simplifies not only the certification management (with auto-enrollment for expired certificates) but also the trust between the different connections.
In this environment, the vSphere certificates are generated and issued by the VMCA and stored by the vSphere Endpoint Certificate Store (VECS). But to avoid browser warnings, you need to trust on the VMware's CA by adding at your certification chain. First of all, you ...
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