Error Replacing ESXi SSL Certificates and Key with Powercli

[kreifer1]

I'm writing a script to replace the machine ssl certificates and key on our ESXi hosts using the instructions from the link below, but I'm getting an error that I can't figure out.  I'm not finding any examples as the powercli commandlets are fairly new. Any help would be much appreciated.

vCenter and hosts are running version 7.0.3

Powercli to manage certs - https://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2022/02/managing-vsphere-certificates-with-powercli.html

Certificate formatting -  https://waynehartman.com/posts/update-ssl-certs-in-esxi-server.html

[LucD]

Are you sure the castore.pem file is written in UTF8 format?
Perhaps try piping the result of the openssl command to a file with Out-File -Encoding utf8