VMware vSphere 5.5 Toolkit

I wanted to create this post because a fellow vExpert has created a great toolkit which I have personally used and found very useful when installing vSphere 5.5 and correctly configuring SSL.

Some of the benefits of the SSL powershell script include:

• Downloads and installs the proper version of OpenSSL (0.9.8.za) if it’s not already installed
• Creates 2048 bit RSA private keys in the proper format
• Creates a directory for each service bundle of SSL certificates
• Generates seven OpenSSL configuration files, one for each certificate, in the appropriate directory
• Downloads both root and subordinate root public certificates
• Submits the CSRs to the online CA and downloads the certificates
• Creates the needed service PEM files for the vCenter certificate automation tool
• Creates the required root/subordinate PEM files
• Handles the special SSO 5.5 certificate requirements
• Does NOT require PowerCLI
• Assumes all vCenter components are on one server
• Automatically uses the hostname of the server you run the script on for all certificates
• Creates a pre-filled vCenter Certificate Automation environment script – Just run!
• Works with offline CAs
• Creates SSO 5.5 certificate replacement files – Only used if manual replacing certs
• Creates customized SQL vCenter and VUM database creation script
• Creates SQL ODBC DSNs for vCenter and VUM
• Automatically downloads and installs SQL 2008 R2 or SQL 2012 client package
• Linux vCenter Server Appliance support for online minting and offline CSR creation
• Creates certificates for Auto Deploy, Dump Collector, Syslog collector, Authentication Proxy
• Support Microsoft CAs that require manual certificate approval

You can download the toolkit from http://vexpert.me/toolkit55 and keep up the good work Derek 🙂