For testing and development purposes, you can deactivate the SSL certificate validation that the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension API performs.

The VMware Cloud Director tenant portal requires an SSL certificate validation. When SSL inactive, you cannot access VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension by using the VMware Cloud Director tenant portal.

Procedure

  1. Open an SSH connection to the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension machine.
  2. Restart the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension service and deactivate the SSL certificate validation. 
    ose service restart --nossl