- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Additional Resources
- Introduction
- Overview of the PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure
- Virtualization configuration in PowerStore appliances
- Managing virtualization components
- Configure a vCenter server connection and register the VASA provider
- VASA certificate
- Using an external ESXi host with a PowerStore cluster
- Additional VMware software and configuration
- Replicating datastores
- Best practices and limitations
Dell PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide
Switch from a self-signed to a VASA third-party CA certificate
About this task
NOTE:If you have existing vVols on
PowerStore Manager managed by the vCenter, the vVols may temporarily go offline after you remove
PowerStore as the VASA provider in vCenter, until it is re-registered.
Steps
- In PowerStore Manager, generate and import the third-party certificate by following procedures Generate a Certificate Signing Request and Import a third party Certificate Authority signed server certificate for VASA Provider.
- In PowerStore Manager, set Retain VASA Certificate to Enabled once the certificate is accepted on PowerStore.
- In vCenter, import the third-party CA certificate.
- In vCenter, remove PowerStore as a VASA provider.
- In vCenter, manually add PowerStore as the VASA storage provider following the procedure in Manually register the VASA provider in vCenter Server.
Next steps
Optionally, go to to verify the self-signed VASA certificate appears with a Type of Client CACertificate and Issued By information for VMware or the third-party CA.
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