---
title: "Renew ESXi SSL certificates in vSphere Web Client"
date: "2016-05-25T07:00:44Z"
tags: ["Certificate", "Certificate Authority", "SSL", "VMCA"]
categories: ["Networking & Security", "VMware"]
---

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In my earlier post <a href="https://www.wojcieh.net/vcenter-server-6-replacing-ssl-certificates-enterprise-vmca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vCenter Server 6.* – Replacing SSL certificates with Enterprise VMCA</a> I showed you how to use VMware Certificate Authority in Enterprise mode using subordinate Certificate Authority. Once the vCenter Server SSL certificates are replaced the next step is to **Renew ESXi SSL certificates in vSphere Web Client ** in our environment.
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## Renew ESXi SSL certificates in vSphere Web Client

Before we will start with renew of ESXI SSL certificate I would like to show you how old certificate looks like.

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1. Login to vCenter Server and select ESXi host.
2. Select desired ESXi and choose **Certificates \ Renew Certificate.  <br>
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3. Confirm that we want to renew the certificate for the host.<br>
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4. In the recent tasks you can see that certificate was refreshed.<br>
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5. New certificate can be seen as well in browser or ESXi itself.Below you will find ESXi view.<br>
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6. Here you can see how SSL certificate is seen in Web Browser.<br>
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## Summary

Once VMCA in Enterprise mode is used ESXi SSL Certificates can be renewed in few steps and this is very useful. I hope you will find this post informative and whenever you have any questions or doubts just leave comment.

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