In certain situations you must enter an IP address, and in other situations you
must enter a hostname. And in some cases, it doesn't matter. You can determine
the appropriate value by inspecting the serving certificate of your vCenter
server.
Download the serving certificate of your vCenter server, and save it to a file
named vcenter.pem:
Replace VCENTER_IP with the IP address of your
vCenter Server.
Open the certificate file to see the Subject Common Name and the Subject
Alternative Name:
openssl x509 -in vcenter.pem -text -noout
The output shows the Subject Common Name (CN). This might be an IP address, or
it might be a hostname. For example:
Subject: ... CN = 203.0.113.100
Subject: ... CN = my-host.my-domain.example
The output might also include one or more DNS names under
Subject Alternative Name:
X509v3 Subject Alternative Name:
DNS:vcenter.my-domain.example
Choose the Subject Common Name or one of the DNS names under
Subject Alternative Name to use as the value of the vCenter server address
in your configuration file. For example:
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