Disconnected host with expired certificate

[kristenfiniti]

I have a host that shows as "disconnected" in my environment. When I try to connect it, I get the error "Authenticity of the host's SSL certificate is not verified." I'm able to log in to the host's web client, but in there it says "This host's certificates are being managed by vCenter Server, you cannot configure them using the Host Client." However, since the host is disconnected, the options to Renew or Refresh the certificate are grayed out. 

Edit: The host is set to be retired anyway so I'm just going to register the VMs to other hosts and be done with it.

Edit 2: Unfortunately this didn't work. I couldn't register the VMs through the gui so I ran vim-cmd solo/registervm /vmfs/volumes/DataStore/VM/vmname.vmx for one of them and it shows as disconnected on its new host with no option to connect it.

Any ideas?

[memaad]

1. Make sure you have VM in powered off state

2. Unregister VM from disconnected host using command line, disconnected host should be removed from vCenter, if it does not have powered On VM, which should remove old status record of VM from vCenter DB.

3. Register VM on new esxi host using command line.

[kristenfiniti]

memaad: This is working, thank you!

[jc296]

Try the fix at the bottom of this article: https://vstellar.com/2017/11/refreshregeneratereplace-esxi-6-0-ssl-certificates/#:~:text=Note%3A%20If%20the%20Esxi%20host,if%20the%20certificate%20is%20expired.