Registering vSphere Replication Appliance with VCSA failing with

[LukeLegend]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for any help you can provide in advance, I am attempting complete registration of two replication appliances with two separate VCSA's however any attempt seems to result in the following...

"Unable to obtain SSL certificate: Bad server response; is a LookupService listening on the given address?"

I can however ping the VC from the appliance and all DNS looks good.  I am currently waiting for the security team to confirm if port 7444 is open but we are pretty sure it is.  As per the following KB I have also tried amending the registration address to ...

https://pvsvr0060:7444/lookupservice/sdk 

But still no bannana

Any idea's how I what this might be or how I can get some more meaningful information. 

[SureshKumarMuth]

What is the response from browser when you use this URL ?

Is it get connected ?

[vijayrana968]

What is the result when you are opening https://pvsvr0060:7444/lookupservice/sdk ​ in browser.

Also, make sure the hostname entry of vcenter is added with full FQDN in /etc/hosts of VR appliance. Because just adding hostname will resolve names but certificates are with FQDN. I have seen this where name resolution is working but FQDN is the root cause of many communications break.

Registering VMware vSphere Replication (VR) to vCenter Server fails with the error: Unable to obtain...

[SK21090]

FQDN is required. please let us know if you still find the issue

[LukeLegend]

I get absolutely no response from the browser, I wasnt however sure if I should expect to?  What should I expect to see?

[LukeLegend]

I get absolutely no response from the browser, I wasnt however sure if I should expect to?  What should I expect to see?

[vijayrana968]

This should return with XML file, make sure port 7444 is opened.

[LukeLegend]

Hmm... this is leading me to believe the lookup service is broken in some way.  I don't seem to be able to see a lookup service specified in vCenter services in the webclient.  Any idea's how I go about troubleshooting this and confirm its not behaving as it should.  Strange thing is however I don't see any alerts in the infrastructure for a lookup service not working.

Thanks for all your help guys regardless, these forums are a life saver 

[vijayrana968]

What is the version of VCSA you are using ?

[SK21090]

I will recommend below to resolve lookup and SSL certificate issue:

Note: vCenter Server generates new default certificates using this option. For systems that use custom certificates, regenerate the certificates manually.

1. Login into vCenter VA Configuration https://[hostname]:5480

2. Select the Admin tab

3. Click Toggle certificate setting, you will see Certificate regeneration enabled change to Yes.

4. Re-boot the Virtual Appliance

5. After the vCenter Server Appliance restarts, confirm that the Certificate regeneration enabled option is set to disable.

[Cr_vm]

Lookup service is on psc not vc (if you have external psc).

[vFouad]

Hi Luke,

Could you please share the build and version numbers of VC/PSC and VR... there are quite a few tricky interops in the 6.x branch of vSphere...

Just want to check the basics