I always have to go back and do the searches again to find these when I need them.
For pre-View 5.0.1, doing the cert with keytool... These are the resources you need:
Familiarize yourself with both of them before proceeding. The TcpDump one is particularly good, buit it omits making a 2048-bit request.
TcpDump
VMware KB 1008705