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  • 1.  Renew vCenter certificate for storage VASA provider

    Posted Dec 14, 2018 06:45 PM

    Hi,

    vCenter 6 was connected to My EMC storage via storage provider

    Today it was inaccessible and I tried to register it manually but it says certificate is expired and it shos a certificate which was granted to EMC storage by vcenter the first time the VASA connection was established (seems it is this way by design)

    But I cannot find where and how I can renew this certificate or force to use another certificate so VASA is still unavailable

    Please help me on this

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: Renew vCenter certificate for storage VASA provider

    Posted Dec 14, 2018 07:06 PM

    I changed the name of storage management address but still the same...

    A very funny KB here

    Refresh Storage Provider Certificates

    If you fail to refresh the certificate before it expires, vCenter Server discontinues using the provider.

    :smileyhappy:
    So I should retire my storage or what ?


  • 3.  RE: Renew vCenter certificate for storage VASA provider

    Posted Dec 15, 2018 03:22 AM

    I changed the storage name and now I'm getting a new certificate appearently..

    But when trying to add vasa provider it simply says a problem was encountered while registering the provider

    seems certificate issue is not yet resolved

    com.vmware.vim.sms.provider.vasa.cert.CertificateManagerImpl - Certificate has expired.

    Log says ..



  • 4.  RE: Renew vCenter certificate for storage VASA provider
    Best Answer

    Posted Dec 16, 2018 04:40 AM

    Found the solution

    Deleted Vasa x509 certificate on storage side