VMware SRM SSL Certificate Problems After Applying Microsoft Security Patch

Microsoft recently issued a security advisory and a patch that blocks any certificates with a key length less than 1024 bits. This has impacted a wide variety of systems including VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 and below. This article will provide you a way to quickly regenerate the self-signed SRM certificates.

vSphere Security Hardening Policy and SRM 5

VMware is in the process of working on the vSphere 5 edition of the Security Hardening Guide and will shortly make a public draft available for comment (I’ll let you know when it’s available). This will be great news to the many people who have been waiting patiently for it since the vSphere 5 release. A lot of work is going into making this edition of the Security Hardening Guide much more user friendly and easier to use and implement. Many of the locked down items will be the same as in 4.1, and of course some changes and enhancements too. Another difference this time around is there are now new implications and restrictions on functionality introduced by the recommendations due to changes at least one popular VMware vCenter Management Tool. This is where Site Recovery Manager (SRM) v5 comes into the picture.