Month: July 2020

NFV Suite

SSL Certificate Replacement Procedure for VMware vRealize Operations manager

Balaji Saravanan

One of the most important product in monitoring vSphere environment is the VMware vRealize operations manager. I had to recently replace SSL custom certificates and gathered the below procedure. Below is the setup , vROPS version 6.6 3 Nodes running with VIP in front end using Load balancer. Load balancer is configured in NSX-ESG appliance… Continue reading SSL Certificate Replacement Procedure for VMware vRealize Operations manager

NFV Suite

Replacing SSL Certificates in VMware vRealize Network insight

Balaji Saravanan

With NFV in place , i had to manage our vRNI as part of NFV suite and replace its SSL certificates for integrity in environment. Prerequisites: Validate that there is a recent backup of vRNI virtual machines[Both proxy and platform VMs] are available in environment. Generate a list of fully qualified domain names and their… Continue reading Replacing SSL Certificates in VMware vRealize Network insight

NFV Suite

Creating Certificate Signing requests Using XCA Portable Tool

Balaji Saravanan

Are you so allergic towards OpenSSL for generating CSRs ? Do you always prefer GUI over commandline and looking an alternate for CSR generation without OpenSSL? Then this blog post is absolutely for you ! XCA portable is a GUI based free tool used to generate Key pair and CSR for your SSL reaplcement activities… Continue reading Creating Certificate Signing requests Using XCA Portable Tool