VMware View Manager Certificate Installation

VMware View Manager (Connection and Security servers) ships with a self-signed SSL certificate that can be used by clients when creating secure sessions to View desktops. However, there are many reasons why one should not use a self-signed SSL certificates, but probably none more than the lack of security controls with this type of certificate. In this article, we will describe the steps necessary to replace the default self-signed SSL certificate with either a third party Certificate Authority (CA) or your very own internal CA.

Items for consideration:

For clients that will access View via the Internet, you should consider purchasing a certificate from an external CA such as Thawte or Entrust. A third party CA will ensure the site your clients believe to be yours, is in-fact genuine and not a impostor posing to be you. Further more, it will save us the additional configurations necessary for thin clients to work with a self-signed certificate - and we would hate to do anymore work than absolutely necessary.

If your clients only access to View is from a non-Internet facing internal network, you might opt to use a internal CA. So as long as your clients can communicate with both your internal CA and the View server, there is no need to purchase a certificate from a third party.

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anurdh65  - SSL certificate |13/08/2009 05:18:59 Very Nice information. My friend bought the SSL certificate from http://www.tucktail.com/ but i dont know whether it is firmware or not. Reply | Quote

thirt |22/08/2009 19:41:35 Hi anurdh65, I'm not sure what you mean by firmware. Can you elaborate a bit more for me? Thanks, Tom Reply | Quote

Rashid Iqbal  - OWA not working in vmware after configuring the ss |29/06/2010 08:53:01 I install the ssl certificate for OWA. before installing the ssl I can access the owa for email but after installing the ssl certicate and trying to access the email through https://test.abc.com/exchange. getting error: the page cannot be displayed. I am doing all this in VMWare virtual machine. kindly help me to sort out this issue. Regards, Rashid Reply | Quote

Siddharth |27/12/2011 10:57:50 Hi, Somehow I am not able to make this work Used a go daddy cert and downloaded it as a tomcat server certificate as Vmware support suggests All steps work find while importing the certificate Once security server services are restarted I see the server only listening on http://*:80 Any clues Reply | Quote

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