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Red hat linux Virtualization

Renewing Ovirt Engine certificates before they expire

In Red Hat Virtualization earlier than version 4.4 SP1, all certificates followed a 398 day lifetime. Starting in Red Hat Virtualization version 4.4 SP1, the self-signed internal certificates between hypervisors and the Manager follow a five year lifetime. Certificates visible to web browsers still follow the standard 398 day lifetime and must be renewed once […]

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Update oVirt hosted-engine host certificates VM if the are expired

Environment: Red Hat Virtualization 4.4 Issue:  All the hosted-engine hosts vdsm certificates are expired. The hosted-engine VM is down and it’s unable to start it using hosted-engine –vm-start because of expired certificates. Resolution: Since CA of the RHV environment is the RHV manager which is down, we have to get the CA certificates and keys to the host […]