Replacing vCenter 4.1 SSL Certificate with Active Directory Issued One

This is an update post to reflect the differences in vCenter 4.1 vs the older vCenter 25 install. The older post can be found here.

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 do the vSphere (ESX/ESXi [...]

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. [...]