Unable to deploy - issues with SSL keys?

[ABraverman]

Hi - I've been unable to get the latest (2.0) BDE deployed against a new vCenter environment.

The environment is as follows:   

     One ESXi host - 5.5 build 1623387   

     One vCenter Appliance - 5.5 build 2001466

    Embedded DB, Embedded SSO

    BDE 2.0.0.951 build 1885370

NTP and DNS are configured and tested.

Deploying seems to work well but I cannot get past the error on initialization:

ERROR: Failed to Launch Serengeti Web Service. Illegal option: /opt/serengeti/.certs/serengeti_ws.jks.keytool -importkeystore [OPTION].....Imports one or all entries from another keystore..Options:..-srckeystore source keystore name.-destkeystore destination keystore name.-srcstoretype source keystore type.-deststoretype destination keystore type.-srcstorepass source keystore password.-deststorepass destination keystore password.-srcprotected source keystore password protected.-srcprovidername source keystore provider name.-destprovidername destination keystore provider name.-srcalias source alias.-destalias destination alias.-srckeypass source key password.-destkeypass destination key password.-noprompt do not prompt.-providerclass provider class name.-providerarg provider argument.-providerpath provider classpath.-v verbose output..Use "keytool -help" for all available commands And, while I can connect to the BDE server with the plugin,

I cannot create objects as they result in an error "unable to connect to vCenter Server" - this looks like the BDE appliance is having a hard time importing the vCenter SSL keys. Has anyone seen this?  Any thoughts on getting past it? Thanks! -Andrew

[jessehuvmw · Accepted solution]

Hi,  could you please attach the files /opt/serengeti/logs/*.log  on BDE Server ?  And Is your BDE vApp deployed in the vCenter cluster rather than the ESX host ?  You will see this error if it's deployed on the ESX host.

-Jesse

[ABraverman]

Thanks Jesse! When the environment was built and handed over to me, they never created a cluster.  Since it was a single host test environment, I didn't think of it either.  Once I created the cluster object, the installation completed perfectly.

[jessehuvmw]

That's great. Maybe the BDE Server is rebooted and fixed the keytool error. If you see the same error later, please attach the files /opt/serengeti/logs/*.log  on BDE Server for us to debug.

[1802427055]

why I install the VMware server failly? it appreances don't have the SSL keys necessary to run VMware server. I had tried many mathods offered by somebody  in internet to fix it , but still fail