Debugging and Resolving vCenter Access Issues Due to Expired Certificates

Recently, I encountered an issue where I was unable to access the vCenter web interface in my Test-Lab, after restoring to a pretty old Snapshot. Upon attempting to log in, I was met with the errors “No healthy upstream” and “503 – Service Not Available” on the management interface. This blog post outlines how I debugged and resolved this issue, which turned out to be caused by an expired certificate.

Importing OVA into VCSA 6.5 fails – The operation failed for an unknown reason

I’ve experienced a problem while importing an OVA into VCSA 6.5. The error that I’ve got is the one bellow. As you can see it says that the problem occurs due to certificates that the browser does not trust. If you are checking the certificate in the web browser, you will see a certificate warning. The solution found is actually quite simple. You have to download the VMCA root certificates