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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Instant Cloned ESXi for My VMware Homelab

Nested Virtualisation has come a long way over the past 15 years. I remember hacking away at VMware Workstation to run ESX 3.5 and then run a guest VM nested on top of that just because I could. Although VMware does not officially support Nested Virtualisation for production use, the capability is native these days….

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Install Free SSL Certificate for vSphere 7 Home Lab

Last year I wrote the follow guide Install Free Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate for your vCenter 6.7 Lab. The certificate was issued by Let’s Encrypt via a project called ZeroSSL. Recently ZeroSSL stopped using Let’s Encrypt, and started issuing the certificates themselves, therefore the process to generate the certificate outlined in that guide is no…

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