vCenter/vSphere Web Client SSL Certificate Requests (PFX vs JKS)
I was working to get certs for the vsphere web client. Needless to say, I had worked w/ JKS (Java Keystore) before so I figured the process was the same for PFX (PKCS12 keystore) files, but I was dead wrong. I'd highly recommend looking into the VMware SSL Certificate Automation Tool . What follows is mainly a learning exercise for me. For starters, if you have a mac, good for you, cause openssl is likely already installed and accessible via terminal which makes things much easier from the get go. If you run Windows, download the windows binaries and install. If you go to the openssl.org site like listed in VMware's docs as a Windows admin, lord help you. When you install the openssl windows binaries w/ all defaults selected, openssl installs on C:\OpenSSL-Win32\bin. Open a command prompt to that directory, then you can pretty much follow the instructions from VMware . To read more about my trials and tribulations, click the link to continue ...