Automate Free Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate Replacement for vSphere 8

Due to popular demand, I have updated the vCenter SSL Installation script with some significant enhancements. (Once again Credit to Ryan Bolger – https://github.com/rmbolger for the Posh-ACME module). This update now checks for prerequisites and installs them. In addition, it now supports vSphere 7 and vSphere 8. The latest version of Install-vCenterSSL.ps1, generates certificates and then…

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Automate Free SSL Certificate Replacement for vCenter 7

In the past, I’ve posted some guides for replacing the default self-signed vCenter certificate with a free, trusted Let’s Encrypt 90 Day certificate. I recently started to look into generating the free SSL using an ACME client and stumbled across this PowerShell module Posh-ACME (Credit to Ryan Bolger – https://github.com/rmbolger for this module). I decided to…

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Install Free Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate for your vCenter 6.7 Lab

In this post, I’ll show you how to install a valid SSL certificate for your vCenter server for FREE!. For this I’ll use a free, open-source web-based tool by ZeroSSL to generate a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate quickly and easily. Let’s Encrypt is a free open certificate authority brought to you by the non-profit Internet…

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