Every vCenter keeps its certificates, private keys and trusted roots here, VMCA-signed or otherwise; vecs-cli is the tool for managing it.
Also called VMware Endpoint Certificate Store.
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Terms in this definition
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- KEYS
Lists the column or columns that identify each target row uniquely in an AUTO CDC statement.
- vecs-cli
A vCenter appliance command for working with VECS stores and their contents, such as checking certificates and when they expire. SSH access to it remains possible if the vSphere Client is unavailable.
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
Related terms
- SMS store
A VECS certificate store created by solutions like Virtual Volumes, and able to hold VASA provider certificates too. Leave its contents alone unless Broadcom's documentation instructs otherwise.
- VMAFD
VCenter's VMware Endpoint Certificate Store host, also handling other authentication tasks; its log lives in /var/log/vmware/vmafdd. A certificate with non-UTF-8 characters makes its first boot fail mid-upgrade.