After migrating from 5.5 Windows to 6.5 Appliance you get Certificate error in Profile-Driven Storage.

This is not used after 6.0.

You will see a warning in VirtualCeneter that you have a certificate warning.

And if you go in to service you have a serivice that has a yellow warning.

Because this is not used you can delete this one.

ssh to vcenter

Command> shell
Shell access is granted to root

To verify, look in the logfile

less /var/log/vmware/vmware-sps/sps.log

look for something like this:

Then

cd /usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/

./vecs-cli entry list  –store sms

Number of entries in store : 1
Alias : sms_self_signed
Entry type : Private Key
Certificate : —–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—–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—–END CERTIFICATE—–

./vecs-cli entry delete  –store sms –alias sms_self_signed

./vecs-cli entry delete –store sms –alias sms_self_signed
Warning: This operation will delete entry [sms_self_signed] from store [sms]
Do you wish to continue? Y/N [N]
y
Deleted entry with alias [sms_self_signed] in store [sms] successfully

Restart the services:

service-control –stop vmware-sps

service-control –start vmware-sps

Done!