A certificate signing request (CSR) is an encrypted text file that contains specific information, such as organization name, common name, locality, and country. You send the CSR file to a certificate authority (CA) to apply for a digital identity certificate.
You generate a CSR and a matching private key. The private key remains on the vSphere Replication Appliance.
Attention: Generating a new private key invalidates any existing CSR configuration.
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What to do next
To submit a certificate request to the CA in accordance with the CA enrollment process, use the contents of the CSR file.
The CA creates a server certificate based on the information in the CSR file, signs it with its private key, and sends you the certificate, which you can then import to the vSphere Replication Appliance.