How to setup a NSX-V LB for vIDM

Recently I wanted to deploy a VMware Identity Manager 3.3.2 cluster with vRealize Lifecycle Manager 8.1. As a prerequisite I needed to prepare the vIDM Load Balancer. Unfortunately I was not able to find a complete overview on how to configure this with NSX-V 6.4.6. After some research and reaching out to others, I was able to find all the information I needed. This article reveals how I configured the NSX-V Load Balancer for the vIDM 3 node cluster.

Upload vdim certificate chain and the corresponding root CA certificates:

[vIDM Certificate Chain]

*In the field “Certificate Contents” add the entire certificate chain. Just like the below example.

—–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—–

[contents leaf certificate]

—–END CERTIFICATE—–

—–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—–

[contents root ca]

—–END CERTIFICATE—–

*In the field “Private Key” add the private key of the certificate in rsa format. Just like the below example.

—–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—–

[contents rsa private key]

—–END RSA PRIVATE KEY—–

Note: If your private key does not start with —–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—–, than you have to convert your private key first before NSX-V accepts your private key. You can do this for example with openssl. See my example below.

openssl rsa -in vidm-private-key.key -out vidm-private-rsa-key.key

[Corresponding Root CA]