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.
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.'?
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Scope ProxyPolicy DefaultVIServerMode InvalidCertificateAction DisplayDeprecationWarnings WebOperationTimeout
Seconds
----- ---------- ------------------- ------------------------ -------------------------- --------------------
Session UseSystemProxy Multiple Ignore Trye 300
User
AllUsers
After the SSL certificate configuration in PowerCLI is connected to server successfully.
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