Failure commissioning host (with a custom certificate) to an SDDC cluster

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager / VCF Installer
• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

• ESX host has a custom certificate applied.
• Commission host in SDDC cluster fails.

Environment

VCF 9.x

SDDC 9.x

Cause

ESX host has a custom certificate.

Resolution

Create a Self-signed certificate regenerated based on FQDN of host. See Regenerate the Self-Signed Certificate on ESX Hosts.