SSL certificates took on an important role in vSphere 5.1, and managing the certificates that the vSphere environment required became another challenge that vSphere administrators needed to tackle.

So I have a vCenter with two hosts that all live on a private management network. The vCenter is running its self-signed stuff. I wanted to replace them with real certs from my CA. It was already fun ...

I'm currently running vCenter/vSphere 4.1 along with View 4.5 for a legacy app in some XP linked clones. This setup works fine and is in production use. I eventually want to move it to View ...