One or more certificates for storage onboarded Storage backends are invalid message seen during OTV 10 upgrade
Applies to
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere v10.x
Issue
- During the upgrade of ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere (OTV) v10.x to v10.5Px, the following may be presented:
One or more certificates for storage onboarded Storage backends are invalid.
This can pose a security risk, especially if a certificate does not contain a SAN entry.
There will be no certification validation, do you want to proceed?
- The upgrade-run.log report will show the following:
Wed May 6 15:16:21 2026 : One or more certificates for onboarded Storage backends are invalid. with exit code .
Wed May 6 15:16:21 2026 : One or more certificates for onboarded Storage backends are invalid. with error code 07090.
