Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication OVF Deployment Warning: "The certificate is expired" during Review Details phase
Article ID: 424899
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Issue/Introduction
Symptoms:
On the vSphere Client, Deploy OVF Template wizard task for a Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication appliance reports the below warning:
"The certificate is expired"
Environment
VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.7, 8.8
VMware Live Site Recovery 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2
vSphere Replication 8.7, 8.8, 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2
Cause
The signing certificate used for signing the currently-available SRM and VR Appliance OVFs during the build process expired on January 3rd 2026.
As a result of this, new appliance deployments using vSphere Deployment/OVF Tool will fail.
Resolution
This is a known issue impacting SRM and VR Appliance deployments.
To workaround this issue, in the vSphere Client, click "Ignore" to acknowledge the warning.
Deploy OVF wizard can then continue and the appliance deployment via the vSphere UI will complete successfully.
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