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Generating SSL Certificates for usage with vCenter, Update Manager and the ESXi host is one of those tasks that keeps being push away. Accepting the self-signed certificates is fine in most situation, but getting validated certificates means a whole lot of pop-ups disappear and surprise surprise, I have also found that the vCenter Operations Manager feels smother and faster.

I recently followed Julian Wood’s excellent series on how to sign certificates for vCenter and Update Manager. Generating the SSL Certificates for vCenter Operations Manager goes along the same lines, but there are changed and maybe some configuration changes on the vCOPS UI-VM.

Acer aspire one d250 ram upgrade 4gb. Julian recommends to install the latest 64-bit version of the OpenSSL Windows Binaries. Retrieve the Win64 OpenSSL v1.0.1 Light for Windows tool on the vCenter with it’s per-requisite Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables (x64) from Microsoft.com

Once the OpenSSL v1.0.1 Light is installed, we can add an System Environment Variable, so that the OpenSSL tool can find the path to the OpenSSL configuration file. Because I’m going to use the OpenSSL tool on the vCenter to generate the SSL Certificates for various VMware appliance, I need the variable to stay permanent. From the Control Panel on the vCenter, I add a new System Environment Variable like follows.

Adding the OPENSSL_CONF environment variable in the Control Panel

So that the next time you start the Command Prompt to generate OpenSSL Certificates, the variable is already present.

One of the best information I learned from Julian’s document is the modification of the openssl.cfg to add the option to use two subjectAltName for the DNS resolution. This allows the user to get a valid certificate when you connect to the vCenter Operations Manager 5.0, using the Fully Qualified Domain Name or simply the short name of the server.

To use this feature you will need to edit the C:OpenSSL-Win64binopenssl.cfg and add “req_extensions = v3_req” to the “[ req ]” section, and add “subjectAltName = DNS:vcops.vsphere.bussink.local,DNS:vcops” to the “[ v3_req]” section. I need to add that I also modify the default key length in the certificate request to 2048 bits.

[box] [ req ]

default_bits = 2048

req_extensions = v3_req

[ v3_req ]

~~subjectAltName = DNS:vcops.vsphere.bussink.local, DNS:vcops, DNS:192.168.1.18~~

subjectAltName = DNS:vcops.vsphere.bussink.local, DNS:vcops

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Update (29/03/2012): I added to my subjectAltName, the iPAddress of my vCenter Operations Manager UI. You will get the information from the vCenter Managed Object Reference portal ExtensionManager value (See screenshot at the bottom of the post). The entry is of format DNS:192.168.1.18

Update (02/04/2012): Thanks to Josh Perkins excellent article “vCenter Operations Manager 5 vCenter Plugin uses IP instead of DNS hostname“. I have removed the IP address subjectAltName in the certificate request in the code above.

To create the Certificate file I used the following commands. Go to the bin directory of the OpenSSL tools. Generate a new Certificate Request while keeping the Cert Private key on your vCenter server. I’m generating the vCOPS private key with the 2048bit RSA algorithms and the SHA256 Message Digest algorithms. 640x480 video mode free download filehippo.

[box] cd C:OpenSSL-Win64bin

openssl req -new -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -sha256 -out vcops.csr -keyout vcops.key

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Generate vCOPS Certificate Request

Once we have the Certificate Request for the vCenter Operations Manager, we can submit it to the Public Key Infrastructure for certification. There are two ways to it, once from the command prompt and via the Web interface of the PKI.

Command Prompt Certificate Request

Windows Server 2008 R2 has a simple tool, to submit the Certificate Request directly the Microsoft Root CA (Enterprise Mode).

On my Certificate Authority I have cloned the default WebServer Certificate Template, and named it OpenSSL. I have also modified it’s Validity Period, Renewal Period. Jiu jitsu renegade torrents. See completely at the bottom of this post to get an explanation and description of these changes.

My Microsoft Certificate Authority implementation is configured so that Certificate Requests need to be authorized, so the Submit/Retrieve process is composed of two commands here: certreq -submit and certreq -retrieve, if your Certificate Authority is not setup with validation, the submission/retrieval process is done in a single command.

[box]

certreq -submit -attrib “CertificateTemplate:WebServer” vcops.csr

certreq -submit attrib “CertificateTemplate:OpenSSL” vcops.csr[/box]

Submitting vCOPS Certificate Request from Command Prompt

At this point the Certificate has been submitted to the Root CA authority in the domain. Please note the RequestId number when you submit the Certificate Request. Once the Certificate has been authorized and generated you can retrieve it back to the vCenter.

[box]certreq -retrieve 16 vcops.cer [/box]

If we open the vcops.cer in Windows, we can see that the Certificate has also proper Certificates in the Certification Path. This is important to ensure that browsers can validate the vCOPS Certificate all the way up to the Certificate Authority (with the Issuing CA is it’s an Intermediate Certification Authority).

Verify your vCOPS Certificate for the Certification Path

We now need to build a PKCS#12 container file with the Certificate, the Private Key and output it to the .PFX file.

[box] openssl pkcs12 -export -in vcops.cer -inkey vcops.key -name vcops -out vcops.pfx[/box]

vCenter Operations Manager 5.0 does not use the PKCS#12 file format, but the PEM format, and requires that the Private Key is not protect by password. So we re-transform the the .PFX with the Private Key into the .PEM format.

[box] openssl pkcs12 -in vcops.pfx -inkey vcops.key -out vcops.pem -nodes[/box]

Transform vCOPS from PKCS12 Container to PEM format

At this point open the Administrator interface of vCenter Operations Manager on the SSL pane, and import the PEM certificate.

The url is https://vcops.<your-domain>/admin/

But here comes a tricky part. It’s debugging time.

It is very possible that your Import of the OpenSSL Certificate fails with a General error occured. Like below.

OpenSSL Import General Error Occurred

What I found is that the apache2 Web Server on vCOPS did not like loading my SSL Certificate, because it saw that the certificate was for a FQDN that it could not figure out. I modified the /etc/hosts file to ensure apache2 got the proper hostname while starting up and therefore accepted the OpenSSL Certificates.

In the next screenshot you see the error messages from the apache2 at startup when it cannot figure out it’s name and when it does.

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[box]/sbin/service apache2 restart [/box]

vCOPS apache2 startup with default /etc/hosts and modified /etc/hosts

You can always check the vCOPS log

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