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PowerCLI The SSL connection could not be established see inner exception

Recently while working with Vmware PowerCLI on one of my new laptop, when connecting to esxi server and vCenter server with Connect-VIserver command, I was receiving below error.

Connect-VIServer $esxiserver -User $user -Password $password
Connect-VIServer The SSL connection could not be established, see inner exception. 

VMware vSphere vCenter Esxi Connect-viserver powercli ssl connection could not be established powershell inner exception.png

This error is occuring due to vCenter or Esxi isn't configured with valid certificate and has self-signed certificate. To ignore the non-trusted certification error run below command to i.

Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction:Ignore

Perform operation?
Performing operation 'Update VMware.PowerCLI configuration.'?
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"): Y

Scope     ProxyPolicy     DefaultVIServerMode     InvalidCertificateAction  DisplayDeprecationWarnings  WebOperationTimeout
                                                                                                        Seconds
-----     ----------      -------------------     ------------------------  --------------------------  --------------------
Session   UseSystemProxy  Multiple                Ignore                    Trye                        300
User
AllUsers

VMware vSphere vCenter Esxi Connect-viserver powercli ssl connection could not be established powershell inner exception set-powercliconfiguration invalidcertificateaction.png

After the SSL certificate configuration in PowerCLI is connected to server successfully.

Microsoft Powershell VMware Azure powercli set-powercliconfiguration connect-viserver invalidcertificateaction ignore use systemproxy.png

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