Today, I want to share an interesting, and admittedly frustrating, experience I recently had with VMware vCenter. It all started with an innocuous attempt to log into the vCenter Server, only to be greeted with a rather alarming error message: HTTP Status 500 – Internal Server Error. This error, which usually indicates that the server…
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Refresh a vCenter Server STS Certificate Using the vSphere Client
Today my vCenter Server warned my that my STS Signing Certificates are about to expire. Which is good as if STS certificate expire then access to vCenter will be unavailable. If you got caught on this please read this article to resolve your issue. You can refresh your vCenter Server STS signing certificates using the vSphere Client. The…
Read moreHow to check if STS certificate is about to expire or expired already
By now you should know what to do if your STS certificate expire, but if you have been caught on this one here are simple steps to recover: STS certificate expiration – “Signing certificate is not valid” error in VCSA 6.5.x,6.7.x or vCenter Server 7.0.x NOTE: In vCenter Server version 6.5U3k, 6.7 U3j, or 7.0 U1, you receive a…
Read moreSTS certificate expiration – “Signing certificate is not valid” error in VCSA 6.5.x,6.7.x or vCenter Server 7.0.x
Once admin is getting notifications form (ab)users about issue with login to vCenter, there are few possibilities: PEBCAK – one of many terms used in Internet chatting, stands for “problem exists between chair and keyboard,” meaning it’s a problem in user understanding or behavior rather than something wrong with hardware or software. The term is…
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