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Enabling TLS 1.2 on ESXi 5.0 & Vcenter Server 5.0

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Can anyone help me, how to enable the TLS 1.2 on ESXi 5.0 and Vcenter 5.0.

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Jitu211003
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Hi,

Thanks for your reply. But i have already googled a lot.

The article is for Vsphere 6.0 & 6.5.  Check if it applies to Vsphere 5.0.

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batuhandemirdal
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Hi,

The following document will see your business.

vSphere and TLS 1.2 - VMware vSphere Blog

Install the TLS Configuration Utility

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Hi,

Thanks for your reply. But i have already googled a lot.

The article is for Vsphere 6.0 & 6.5.  Check if it applies to Vsphere 5.0.

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Gaurav_Baghla
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I dont think 5.0 might understand TLS 1.2 since it is already in its late stages VMware Knowledge Base

However can you provide me the exact version and then we can see how to proceed

Regards Gaurav Baghla Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer. https://twitter.com/garry_14
AntonStoyanov
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Hi

VMware products are using OpenSSL

According to this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSL

TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 started to be supported from 1.0.0 Released on March 14, 2012

According to this link https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-esx-vcenter-server-50-release-notes.html

VMware vCenter Server™ 5.0 | 24 Aug 2011 | Build 456005

See there can't be 5.0 supporting TLS 1.2 as OpenSSL didn't have the support of TLS 1.2 in 2011.

I am leading the team that made vSphere 6.7 to ship out of the box with TLS 1.2 by default.

We have also delivered the TLSReconfigurator tool, so version 6.0 U3 and 6.5 could be configured to be TLS 1.2 only

You know, The End of General Support for vSphere 5.0 and vSphere 5.1 is August 24, 2016.

I encourage you to move to 6.5 U1 version or 6.0 U3 so you could fully benefit from the security TLS 1.2 protocol offers. Both releases have TLS 1.2 support and are great and stable.