{"id":4148,"date":"2024-05-17T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T11:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2024-05-17T11:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T11:56:11","slug":"deploying-vmware-ova-certificate-is-not-trusted-or-invalid-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=4148","title":{"rendered":"Deploying VMware OVA &#8220;Certificate is not trusted&#8221; or &#8220;Invalid Certificate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When attempting to deploy a VMWare OVA via vCenter you may see an error such as the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-9-1024x472.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-9-1024x472.png 1024w, https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-9-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-9-768x354.png 768w, https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-9.png 1196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One possible solution (which might work for you) if you can&#8217;t get a suitable replacement OVA is to use the OVFTool (which you can download from VMware) to strip the certificate from the OVA, effectively creating a new one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>ovftool.exe --skipManifestCheck C:\\mystuff\\broken.ova C:\\mystuff\\new.ova<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When attempting to deploy a VMWare OVA via vCenter you may see an error such as the following: One possible solution (which might work for you) if you can&#8217;t get a suitable replacement OVA is to use the OVFTool (which you can download from VMware) to strip the certificate from the OVA, effectively creating a &#8230; <a title=\"Deploying VMware OVA &#8220;Certificate is not trusted&#8221; or &#8220;Invalid Certificate&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=4148\" aria-label=\"Read more about Deploying VMware OVA &#8220;Certificate is not trusted&#8221; or &#8220;Invalid Certificate&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}