Archive for April 19, 2013

Re-Register to vCenter Server using Update Manager Utility

Re-Register to vCenter Server using Update Manager Utility

It is necessary to re-register vCenter Server from Update Manager, for example when you change IP Address, Hostname or Certificate of vCenter Server. When you get an error message like below, then you know that you will need to re-register vCenter Server from Update Manager.

There was an error connection to VMware vSphere Manager
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When Update Manager is installed, it installs VMwareUpdateManagerUtility underĀ  C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager folder.

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Replace vCenter Server Certificate

Replace vCenter Server Certificate

vCenter server uses an automatically generated self-signed certificate after the installation. As with ESXi Server, this may not be desirable in some environment and requires use of a CA signed certificate.

As you may be aware when you access vCenter for the first time using vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client, you will receive a certificate warning message as the certificate vCenter uses is not signed by a known CA.

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