As the title suggests, I'm trying to login to a VMWare vSphere server using PowerCLI. Even though I ran Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -Confirm:$false -Scope AllUsers, when I try to connect to the server this is what I'm getting:
Connect-VIServer -Server "foobar.server" -User ... -Password ...
Connect-VIServer : 3/30/2020 4:16:46 PM Connect-VIServer Error: Invalid server certificate. Use Set-PowerCLIConfiguration to set the value for the InvalidCertificateAction option to Prompt if you'd like to connect once or to add a permanent exception for this server.
Additional Information: Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS with authority 'foobar.server'.
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+ Connect-VIServer -Server "foobar.server" -User ... -Passw ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : SecurityError: (:) [Connect-VIServer], ViSecurityNegotiationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_ConnectivityServiceImpl_Reconnect_CertificateError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.ConnectVIServer
It seems like the configuration took:
Get-PowerCLIConfiguration
Scope ProxyPolicy DefaultVIServerMode InvalidCertificateAction DisplayDeprecationWarnings WebOperationTimeout
Seconds
----- ----------- ------------------- ------------------------ -------------------------- -------------------
Session UseSystemProxy Multiple Ignore True 300
User Ignore
AllUsers Ignore
Why can't I connect to the server?
if you are using an older version of vCenter (5.5) try this:
[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol =[System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]'Ssl3,Tls,Tls11,Tls12'