- Workaround to get new certificates generated from Dell EMC Unity so that it can be added as VASA storage provider from vSphere
Symptoms:
- Unable to refresh storage provider with expired certificate:
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Error: The storage provider certificate has expired. Remove the selected storage provider, provision a valid self-signed certificate for it, and then add it back.
com.vmware.vim.sms.fault.ProviderNotActiveException: Provider f1b3a9d1-####-####-####-##########b9 is not active!!!
"com.vmware.vim.sms.fault.ProviderNotActiveException: Provider f1b3a9d1-####-####-####-##########b9 is not active!!!"
Provider f1b3a9d1-####-####-####-##########b9 is not active!!!
"Provider f1b3a9d1-####-####-####-##########b9 is not active!!!"
- The provider certificate is invalid. It is either empty, malformed, expired, not yet valid, revoked, or fails host name verification.