{"id":875,"date":"2016-08-25T13:17:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/?p=875"},"modified":"2016-08-25T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T11:17:13","slug":"vmware-vsphere-5-x-client-and-windows-xpserver-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"VMware vSphere 5.x client and Windows XP\/Server 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhen installed on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host machine, the vSphere Client and vSphere PowerCLI may fail to connect to vCenter Server 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 due to a Handshake failure. vSphere 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 uses the Open SSL library, which, for security, is configured by default to accept only connections that use strong cipher suites. On Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, the vSphere Client and vSphere PowerCLI do not use strong cipher suites to connect with vCenter Server.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHere is the fix:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. \n\t\tConnect to the host via SSH\n\t<\/li>\n
  2. \n\t\tNavigate to the directory:<\/p>\n
    \n\/etc\/vmware\/rhttpproxy\/<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n\t\tBackup the config.xml<\/em><\/strong> file. Do not skip this step<\/u>.\n\t<\/li>\n
  4. \n\t\tOpen config.xml<\/strong><\/em> file using vi editor\n\t<\/li>\n
  5. \n\t\tAdd the <cipherList>ALL<\/cipherList><\/strong><\/em> parameter between the <ssl>…<\/ssl><\/em><\/strong> section of the configuration file. Use the model below as an example: <\/p>\n
    \n<config>\n...\n<vmacore>\n...\n<ssl>\n<doVersionCheck> false <\/doVersionCheck>\n<useCompression>true<\/useCompression>\n<libraryPath>\/lib\/<\/libraryPath>\n<cipherList>ALL<\/cipherList> # <-- TO BE ADDED\n<\/ssl>\n...\n<\/vmacore>\n...\n<\/config><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  6. \n\t\tSave and close the config.xml<\/strong><\/em> file\n\t<\/li>\n
  7. \n\t\tReset the rhttpproxy<\/strong><\/em> service for the change to take effect by running the command:<\/p>\n
    \n\/etc\/init.d\/rhttpproxy restart\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    When installed on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host machine, the vSphere Client and vSphere PowerCLI may fail to connect to vCenter Server 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 due to a Handshake failure. vSphere 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 uses the Open SSL library, which, for security, is configured by default to accept only connections […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}