Certificate Problems - VC Won't Start?!

[Ryan_Witschger]

So, I've created the rui.crt, rui.key and rui.pfx files as described in the proper documents. If I open them up they look fine, I can import them and bascially treat them as normal certificates, but the second I drop them into the SSL directory and restart VirtualCenter, it fails to start. If I put the old certs (from VMWare) back in, it works and starts fine.

Am I missing a step where I tell VC it has new certs or something?!

VC 2.5 Update 1

ESX 3.5 Update 1

[kjb007]

Is the password correctly set as the doc states? There are definitely issues with changing certificates after the fact. Run virtual center in standalone mode, in a dos window from the vc install folder, run 'vpxd -s'. This may show some additional debug information.

-KjB

[mittim12]

I used the thread below as a reference when performing my cert changes and I didn't have any problems at all.

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[scerazy]

Also http://communities.vmware.com/thread/153794?tstart=0

Seb

[admin]

VC stores the database password in a encrypted format using the SSL keys.

If you replace the SSL certs, VC will not be able to decrypt this password and therefore fail to start.

To fix this, replace the VC certs then reset the password by running the following command from DOS from the folder where the vpxd.exe file resides:

vpxd.exe -p