vSphere 6

Spent longer than necessary messing with vRealize Orchestrator and trying to get it to display the plugin in vCenter server appliance 6.0 U1, you can review my trials and tribulations here: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/523397?src=vmw_so_vex_mgray_1080 ↗ I have been trying to deploy vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.3 with my VCSA 6.0 U1 instance (supported according to compatibility matrix), the symptoms are almost exactly the same as this post: Re: Installing vRO v6.01 but not showing in web client ↗...

If you’ve been reading my other posts of late, you will have gathered I’ve been building a new lab. I say “new”, the last one was a single R710 with a ReadyNas Ultra 6 attached. So essentially, this is my first REAL lab. It’s mostly based on Dell hardware; it’s cheap on eBay, I like their management tools and in the past i’ve only really had good experiences with them, granted it’s no Cisco UCS, HP Bladesystem or Dell M1000e - I think with the addition of OpenManage, and in particular OMIVV it makes it almost as manageable as those environments when you get the foundations laid down nice and solid....

Signing certs for VMware has always been a pain in the ass, it’s gotten a lot better in v6 but there are a few caveats, what we’re going to do here is set up a certificate template in Active Directory from which we will sign our vCenter certificates. Load up your AD-CA box and run: certtmpl.msc Next right click on Web Server and click Duplicate Template: If you use an encryption level higher than sha1 choose Windows Server 2008 as the Certification Authority....