Replacing vCenter 2.5 Self-Signed Certificate with Active Directory Issued One

Certain third party products such as XenDesktop respect the expiration date on the vCenter SSL certificate. The vSphere Client doesn’t mind so much, nor it appears does the ESX hosts, but when your VDIs suddenly can’t be reached, it’s a bad thing.

By default, vCenter will create a self-signed certificate with just the host name. [...]

vSphere 4 (ESX) Update 1 Sadness

VMware’s Update Manager has always been too complex and cumbersome for small installations. However, back in the EX 3.5 days, it at least worked. Late last year when vSphere 4 Update 1 came out, I once again tried using good ol’ Update Manager.

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