Duncan Epping and I were both asked by Simon Mijolovic a colleague here at VMware to help promote some new useful KB articles. Since the release of vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 Simon has been working with many others on documenting the processes to update and use proper signed CA certificates within your vSphere environment. I think many folks will find these useful for sure in their production environments. Thanks Simon!
- Configuring CA signed certificates for VMware vCenter Server 5.0.x
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2015421 - Configuring CA signed SSL certificates for vSphere Update Manager in vCenter 5.1
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2037581 - Creating certificate requests and certificates for the vCenter 5.1 components
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2037432 - Configuring CA signed SSL certificates for vCenter SSO in vCenter 5.1
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2035011 - Configuring CA signed SSL certificates for the Web Client and Log Browser in vCenter 5.1
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2035010 - Configuring CA signed SSL certificates for the Inventory service in vCenter 5.1
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2035009 - Configuring OpenSSL for installation and configuration of CA signed certificates in the vSphere environment
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2015387 - Configuring CA signed certificates for ESXi 5.x hosts
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2015499 - Configuring CA signed certificates for vCenter 5.1
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2035005 - Implementing CA signed SSL certificates with vSphere 5.0
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2015383 - Implementing CA signed SSL certificates with vSphere 5.1
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2034833 - Configuring certificates signed by a Certificate Authority (CA) for vCenter Server Appliance 5.1
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036744