{"id":980,"date":"2014-08-20T08:43:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2014-09-17T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:38:10","slug":"vmware-and-wildcard-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"VMware and Wildcard Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I rebuilt my lab and decided to go for a wildcard certificate to get rid of those irritating security warnings.\u00a0 I found some nasty things happen down the line and in fact I ended up rebuilding my lab completely once again to fix the numerous problems I had which I believe was caused by using wildcard certs. Below I drew up a table of my experience:<\/p>\n<table width=\"428\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\"><strong>Feature<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"106\"><strong>Use Wildcard<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"171\"><strong>Comment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">vCenter<\/td>\n<td width=\"106\">Yes but NO<\/td>\n<td width=\"171\">Seems to work but then you find nasty things later like the storage profile function doesn&#8217;t work<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">vCenter SSO<\/td>\n<td width=\"106\">NO<\/td>\n<td width=\"171\">Stops services<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">Web Client<\/td>\n<td width=\"106\">No<\/td>\n<td width=\"171\">Stops services<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">Log Browser<\/td>\n<td width=\"106\">No<\/td>\n<td width=\"171\">Stops services<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">vCAC<\/td>\n<td width=\"106\">No<\/td>\n<td width=\"171\">Not happy about the hostname in the cert<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">vCAC SSO<\/td>\n<td width=\"106\">No<\/td>\n<td width=\"171\">Not happy about the hostname in the cert<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">View<\/td>\n<td width=\"106\">Yes<\/td>\n<td width=\"171\">Seems OK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">Horizon Workspace Configurator<\/td>\n<td width=\"106\">Yes<\/td>\n<td width=\"171\">Seems OK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"151\">Horizon Worksapce Gateway<\/td>\n<td width=\"106\">Yes<\/td>\n<td width=\"171\">Seems Ok<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Please check out my sponsored link:<\/p>\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I rebuilt my lab and decided to go for a wildcard certificate to get rid of those irritating security warnings.\u00a0 I found some nasty things happen down the line and in fact I ended up rebuilding my lab completely once again to fix the numerous problems I had which I believe was caused by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vdi","category-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":4460,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}